Still Life with Violin uses bright colors and different shapes in painting to really outline the violin. George also makes the violin into a shape of a door handle and this could mean the opening doors to music. It shows people that they are opening themselves to music.
Picasso uses different materials like newspaper and paint to create a vibrant collage. This collage uses only shapes to outline the glass, newspaper, and guitar. This painting is more abstract and allows you to think deeper for the meaning. The word Figaro is a barber character that appears in a French play. Maquette for Guitar is a sculpture by Picasso. This guitar is made out of cardboard, paper, wires, and strings and were glued together. This guitar is very old and almost broken, This could mean how people thought that music was breaking down. This also could mean how the people felt after the Great War. They were all tired and warned down. Juan Gris's most famous art piece was Still Life with Open Window, Rue Ravignan. This painting shows the view and neighborhood that you would see out of the window in 1915. Everything outside was dark and empty. There is a dark meaning to this bright painting because nothing is outside beside buildings. It shows how much people died in the war and now nothing much was left. Still Life with Chair Caning consisted of bright colors and lots of dark outlining, but it is also very messy. This is a painting of a tabletop at a cafe. There are fruits, knife, and other things that were normal at a cafe but everything was unorganized and spilled. This depicts how hard things were after the war. They had a lot to clean up after the war in Europe and this shows how much the aftermath was. |