Pablo Picasso. David Hockney, interview. “If he did three things on one day,” he tells me, “they’re number one, two, three, so you know what he did in the morning and in the afternoon.
It’s fantastic. I’ve sat down and looked through the whole thing from beginning to end three times. That takes some doing, but it’s a fantastic experience. It doesn’t bore you.” This is one way in which Hockney has maintained a close, posthumous relationship with Picasso. Watch The Shock of The New Free Online. Thematic Essay. African Influences in Modern Art. During the early 1900s, the aesthetics of traditional African sculpture became a powerful influence among European artists who formed an avant-garde in the development of modern art. In France, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and their School of Paris friends blended the highly stylized treatment of the human figure in African sculptures with painting styles derived from the post-Impressionist works of Cézanne and Gauguin.
The resulting pictorial flatness, vivid color palette, and fragmented Cubist shapes helped to define early modernism. While these artists knew nothing of the original meaning and function of the West and Central African sculptures they encountered, they instantly recognized the spiritual aspect of the composition and adapted these qualities to their own efforts to move beyond the naturalism that had defined Western art since the Renaissance. In The Autobiography of Alice B. Robert Delaunay. Robert Delaunay 1885-1941 French painter, born in Paris.
Apprenticed for two years to a theatrical designer, then began to paint. Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1963) Albert Gleizes (French, 1881–1953) Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955) Juan Gris. Alexandre Mercereau - Albert Gleizes - 1908. Cubism Quotes.