In my mind Picasso had one major defining difference between his work with sculptures and his paintings. I believe that this difference was what he wanted to show or to portray to the viewer. In his paintings he wanted to show a person’s entire body. But if you look even closer at the paintings he was focusing especially on the faces. That’s why his sculptures were so different from his paintings. With his sculptures he focused primarily on faces and heads of people or strange imaginary animals. For example if you open a book on Picasso it’s most likely that you will find more sculptures of just faces than of entire people. And I also think that even in his paintings he’s trying to sculpt.

The reasoning for this is a painting that he did in 1961 named Jacqueline. In this painting it’s very obvious that the reason for the girls distortion is the way she would look from different directions. Some people might say that he was trying to distort the girl and make her look hideous. But I think he was trying to literally paint a three- dimensional portrait for you. And that’s the main difference between his art and sculptures. In his art it looks as if he’s trying to make the people look disfigured but he really isn’t. But with his sculptures, there’s no doubt about how he’s trying to distort their appearances.

To this end what I think that he does is looks at a person, sees what stands out the most to him and then exaggerates it. There’s a great example of a man with a gigantic nose that is clearly humanly impossible, but not artistically impossible. To this end the difference in disfigurement to that of weaving points of view also inspired the artist to employ a variety of artistic techniques that allowed him to express his ideas as vividly as they are. Almost all of his art employs the technique of simplification. This allows the artist to worry less about fine details and more about general appearance. This allows him to express a plethora of thought through his art.

Also with Picasso being as brilliant as he was he also made sure he took careful consideration of color into his art as well. So if he wanted to express action or energy he would use bright, vibrant colors that seemed to leap off of the page and tell a story of their own. And in contrast if he wanted to portray a sad or dingy mood he would only use a couple of colors in his creation.

The main colors he liked to use is this genera of art were blue and black. This is yet another difference between his art and sculptures. In his career he almost never painted a sculpture in a depressing manor. They always seemed to have color and depth to them. Whilst his paintings went through a phase In which his art was dark and depressing. Overall his primary forms of art were fundamentally different from one another.

Jacqueline

Man with Massive Nose