Tate Modern - Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Seated Nude 1909-10
In the early years of Cubism, Picasso constructed his images using small facets, or geometric planes, and represented objects from different viewpoints. Many critics of the period believed the artist aimed to represent reality in a new, almost scientific manner. However, as this atmospheric painting shows, Picasso could use this technique for expressive ends. Here, the woman has been all but stripped of her humanity and appears strangely mechanistic. At the same time, Picasso demonstrates his awareness of tradition in her pose and in the play of light within the picture.

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I made a visit to the tate Modern to do some more research that wasn't purely magazien and book based...

I went through the States of Flux cubist Exhibition on Level 5 and the Poetry and Dream surrealism Exhibition on Level 3.

Through the states of flux exhibition I wanted to explore the ideas of bringing atmosphere and darkness to painting through cubism and how I could encorporate this within my own work. I chose to use this image by Pablo Picasso because it brings the gritty darkness I am trying to achieve in my research and work. I love the fact that it is not clear wether it is male or female and you cant tell they are nude even though you are told from the title 'seated nude'.

Through looking at these images in the exhibitions I have thought of an idea of projecting the images onto me to experiment with distorting myself in that way using them as my textre and background.