Ma Jolie
When we think of art, the name Pablo Picasso comes to our mind. Pablo Picasso was born in October 25th, 1881, Malaga, Spain. He was born as Spanish but he becomes one of the most famous artists for the whole world. He is famous for his painting, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright. Picasso lived in France most of his life. He died in France in April 8, 1973. Picasso combined language, symbolic meaning, and near abstraction. The picture I choose to write about is call “Ma Jolie” (my pretty girl) was made in 1911-1912 by Picasso. This is one of his famous paintings Picasso made, uses of oil on canvas. He drew his inspiration from the Partisan music group. “Ma Jolie” was a popular tune at that time, also Picasso was nicknamed after his girlfriend Marcelle Humbert He made her figure which he loosely built using the signature shifting planes of analytic cubism. This is very different from traditional pictures of an artist’s love on, but there were some information to mental peace. The central triangular shape clearly signals the shape of a woman’s head and torso. Also there are group of six vertical lines at the painting that look like strings of a guitar, which the woman strums. In here Picasso combined language, symbolic meaning, and near abstraction.
Pablo Picasso’s loved for the musical instrument; inspired him to make this painting using the signature shifting planes. Ma Jolie is not a traditional art it is a modern art because we see the artist take a traditional subject a woman holding a guitar. He composed the figure into the different planes; he made angles, lines, and shading, completely abstracting the face. Six stings in the center of the picture looks like guitar and a symbol in the front of the portrayed that tell us this is a modern art.
This art is very unique, because in this piece of art Picasso tries to challenge the art and culture. He was planning to change his direction to do an experimental work. As a result, we see how Picasso uses the cultural theme in his painting. Picasso linked this piece of art with pop culture and everyday life. He fined different interest in the pop art. Also he uses many new materials in this piece of art and symbol that is different than rational art.
When I visited MOMA there were many portrayed hanging around, but Ma Joile is different from many other for me. As I looked at the picture first thing I saw the color combination of the portrait and shape. This is a very distinctive piece of art; I was image by the picture. It is extremely significant than rest of the portrayed, He shows his talent in his art work and I believe after so many years still people love his portrayed.