*“Ma Jolie” means My love. As we know Picasso is a very famous artist for this modern era and he still famous in women and a lot of Picasso’s works always refer to women. We can assume that his love passion is an energy to lift him up. Like this painting, Ma Jolie, has some parts of woman body which are seperated from each other and we can find some element that can be one part of guitar too. Not only human parts and guitar’s neck, Picasso also used some element into this painting. For example, a wine glass, text, and also the work’s title but the boundaries are unclear. Ma Jolie has a lot of lines that seem like crystalized shape and its color is monochrome which looks like metalic element more than ordinary painting. Because of the way he used color, this painting looks like three-dimension by it own color, the metalic color.
“Man with a Guitar” from Georges Braques. This painting looks very similar with “Ma Jolie” because it used the same way to produce his painting. A lot of lines that seem like crystalized shape used to separate the boundaries of human parts. Metalic color also appear in this painting. Same stlye and same age, then we can say that this two artists inspired each other. But one different thing between two painting is in this Braque’s painting, it’s clearer than Picasso’s painting. We can figure out there has one man who hold his guitar standing in this frame. We can realize where his head, his body, his hand, and also his guitar are.This is one big different point from Ma Jolie.
These two paintings seem to be difficult to understand the meaning of their own because these two magnificant artists of this modern era – Picasso and Braque – want their audience to find the meaning by themselves. This looks like the door to open in a new dimension for history of art.
“Man with a Guitar” from Georges Braques. This painting looks very similar with “Ma Jolie” because it used the same way to produce his painting. A lot of lines that seem like crystalized shape used to separate the boundaries of human parts. Metalic color also appear in this painting. Same stlye and same age, then we can say that this two artists inspired each other. But one different thing between two painting is in this Braque’s painting, it’s clearer than Picasso’s painting. We can figure out there has one man who hold his guitar standing in this frame. We can realize where his head, his body, his hand, and also his guitar are.This is one big different point from Ma Jolie.
These two paintings seem to be difficult to understand the meaning of their own because these two magnificant artists of this modern era – Picasso and Braque – want their audience to find the meaning by themselves. This looks like the door to open in a new dimension for history of art.
2 comments:
Actually, "ma jolie" means "my pretty." It's more possessive and condescending than "mon amour" -- which means "my love." At least I think so -- you might want to check with Clara.
Nice comparison of the two paintings. But don't you think there's something very objectifying and male-chauvinistic about Picasso's picture? There's something disturbing about breaking a body into parts that way...
Thanks for writing this.
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