after: ʻJAQUELINE IN TURKISH COSTUMEʼ, Pablo Picasso - 1955, Collection Catherine Hutin-Blay, Paris, France.
Pablo Picasso is considered to be the most innovative painter of the 20th Century. His work continually developed. After phases of painting predominately in blues and reds, he became inspired by primitive African art. This paved the way to Cubism and abstraction and ultimately transformed the course of modern art, as we know it. Picasso painted Jacqueline as an odalisque - an exotically robed, alluring Moorish woman - after Matisse had left his own series of odalisques in his legacy to Picasso.
no reproduction of original found on internet
after: ʻSELFPORTRAITʼ, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - 1652, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
In this self-portrait of Rembrandt, only the face and one shoulder are lit up from a single light source. The painting is truly Baroque. The eye follows the light. But apart from the usual ways to create an image through bright and dark tones or warm and cool colours, he used paint almost like clay as well. This was new in his time. Critics accused him of not being able to convey depth convincingly without adding daubs of paint. He joked that close proximity to paintings would result in poisoning from the fumes released in the oil paint.
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A special thanks to James Colman for his support, original ideas and help.