Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning

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One of his most famous works of art from the synthetic cubist stage is “Still life with chair caning” (1912), the original title was “Nature morte a la chaise cannee” and this was his first use of collage. Picasso incorporated a piece of oil cloth with a chair caning pattern onto a canvas half covered by oil paints. It was Braque who gave Picasso the idea after purchasing some oil cloth whilst on holiday in Paris, it had a fake wood grain printed on it, which he implemented into his drawing of a guitar he was working on. This fake element was introduced on purpose, it encouraged the viewer to look at art from a different perspective. At first glance the painting looks like a mass of objects without uniformity but by breaking it down into parts …show more content…

Rothko painted rectangles and luminous colours. This style was known as a colour field which was pioneered by Rothko, Barnett Newman Adolph Gottlieb and Clyfford Still, although Rothko did not identify them as colour fields and he didn`t like his paintings being labelled, he preferred to number them instead. These painters avoided using forms which stood out against the background, they filled their canvases with large areas of single colour, hence the name colour field. Rothko’s work was highly expressive and he painted with strong emotion, sometimes he would stare at a blank canvas for hours at a time before he made a start. Sometimes he would use bright colours in the background which gave the impression that the image was floating. Using an untreated canvas, he applied a thin layer of binder mixed with pigment, he then painted several layers of thinned oils over the top of this layer which in effect allowed parts of the layers to show through, this gave the illusion that light was emanating from within the painting. Rothko also experimented with different mediums, he mixed unbound powdered pigments and whole eggs into to his paint and diluted this with solvent, however, sometimes if he added too much solvent it would compromise the mixture. The use of these

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