ART CULTURE OF SPAIN

FOLK CULTURE

DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660)

• Leading artist in the Spanish Baroque period
• Bright lights, mathematical perspective
• Portrait artist
• Painting showed inner workings of the court

LAS MENINAS

DIFFUSION OF SPANISH BAROQUE PERIOD

• High influence by Roman Catholic Church
• Counter reformation
• More emotional
• More realistic
• More dramatic than Protestanian art

POP CULTURE

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

• Started cubism movement
• Started modern collage
• Famous for Three Musicians, 1921

BRANCHES OF ORIGINAL MOVEMENT

• Geometric features
• Conceptual
• 4th dimension
• Used around world today as graffiti and modern art

DIFFUSION OF CUBUSM

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

RECREATIONS

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• Picasso recreated Velazquez's Las Meninas with his style
• Less variance
• Abstract cubism
• More hard edges
• Conceptual not perceptual

PABLO PICASSO

CUBISM

DIEGO VELEZQUEA

PERCEPTUAL BAROQUE STYLE