Factory at Horto de Ebro
Who?
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Factory at Horto de Ebro
Year: 1909
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 53 x 60.3cm
Location: Munchen, Published in 1920 by Delphin-verlag.
What?
Factory at Horto de Ebro is basically what the title itself says; a landscape painting view of a factory at Horto de Ebro. From the picture, 2/3 of it has been covered up with the image of the factory while the other 1/3 is more likely to highlight the dark sky and tall palm trees. The background depth created using standard conventions of linear perspective (for here: geometry). The architecture of the factory was rendered as shaded cubes while then, there is alswo a contrast of indigo, navy blue from the shades and the brown ochre from the lighting; those has made a good combination to convey a 3D effects. Although it’s one piece but it seem like the artist was continually draw the piece at different time since there are many cubes were colored very unique.
When?
After spent seven months with his friends Manuel Pallares in 1989, Pablo Picasso then made his way back to the village on the Aragon border once again in the summer of 1909, where he found his inspiration to begin a series of landscape views. The reason why is because that the surround view was perfectly quiet and peaceful in the middle of mountain village and what could be better than to sit and note down what we see.
Why?
During the 4 decades period from 1870-1910, in which photography, cinematography, sound recording, the telephone, the motor car and the airplane have been just invented, which also heralded the dawn of a new age. (Cubism) Since then, the artists were struggled to reflect the modernity of the era using the accent traditions that has served for the last four centuries and so, Photography begun to replace painting to reflect the modernity of the era. Which also means that art is also needs to proclaim something new to the world, isn't? And there, the idea of a 'new way of seeing' has been brought up and Cubists abandoned the Renaissance naturalism, where everything in the picture is seen from a single, fixed viewpoint. (Cubism FAQ) Unfortunately, once World War I began, the meaning of destruction, primal energy and beginning from scratch changed entirely. The great freewheeling, uninhibited Cubist adventure was over. (Michael Brenson, "Picasso and Braque, Brothers in Cubism")
Formal Qualities:
Factory at Horto de Ebro draws heavily both in color and form, in which these are also the elements that necessitate in Cubism. The colors used in the painting was limited, whereas they're only Earth Tone colors: dark grey, black, new port blue, midnight blue, harvest gold, rustic brown etc. The forms of most of the objects in the painting obviously rendered into geometrical elements, including the factory architecture and the natural forms, such as the sky and trees. The objects are representing a three-dimensional piece, with the support of the tone color used to create dark-side and light-side. Although the artist's use of light is completely random, where the dark and light opposed each other, but what it does is, it emphasizes the sharp quality of the outlines.Usually the further the object is, the smaller they are but not in this painting, where the further buildings in the background are tend to stay above the buildings in the foreground.
Style:
As it produced, it was critical to the development of the early Cubist style, in which pieces in the paint to be rendered from multiple of perspectives using simplified geometric shapes such as cubes, pyramids; and also multi-dimensional forms. Equally, there are significant qualities that have made the piece Cubism. Such as, the factory was rendered as shaded cubes where it represents a truly geometric style. Furthermore, the contrast of indigo, navy blue from the shades and the brown ochre from the lighting representing the art piece in the three-dimension reality.
Works Cited:
"Cubism (c.1907-14)." Cubism: History, Characteristics. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2015.
"Factory at Horto De Ebro, 1909 by Pablo Picasso." Factory at Horto De Ebro, 1909 by Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
"MoMA." Pablo Picasso. The Reservoir, Horta De Ebro. Horta De San Joan, Summer 1909. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
"The Meaning of Cubism." Cubism FAQ. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
Brenson, Michael. "Picasso and Braque, Brothers in Cubism." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Sept. 1989. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Cubism." - the First Abstract Style of Modern Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Picasso ~ 50 Most Representative Paintings." Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Factory at Horto de Ebro
Year: 1909
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 53 x 60.3cm
Location: Munchen, Published in 1920 by Delphin-verlag.
What?
Factory at Horto de Ebro is basically what the title itself says; a landscape painting view of a factory at Horto de Ebro. From the picture, 2/3 of it has been covered up with the image of the factory while the other 1/3 is more likely to highlight the dark sky and tall palm trees. The background depth created using standard conventions of linear perspective (for here: geometry). The architecture of the factory was rendered as shaded cubes while then, there is alswo a contrast of indigo, navy blue from the shades and the brown ochre from the lighting; those has made a good combination to convey a 3D effects. Although it’s one piece but it seem like the artist was continually draw the piece at different time since there are many cubes were colored very unique.
When?
After spent seven months with his friends Manuel Pallares in 1989, Pablo Picasso then made his way back to the village on the Aragon border once again in the summer of 1909, where he found his inspiration to begin a series of landscape views. The reason why is because that the surround view was perfectly quiet and peaceful in the middle of mountain village and what could be better than to sit and note down what we see.
Why?
During the 4 decades period from 1870-1910, in which photography, cinematography, sound recording, the telephone, the motor car and the airplane have been just invented, which also heralded the dawn of a new age. (Cubism) Since then, the artists were struggled to reflect the modernity of the era using the accent traditions that has served for the last four centuries and so, Photography begun to replace painting to reflect the modernity of the era. Which also means that art is also needs to proclaim something new to the world, isn't? And there, the idea of a 'new way of seeing' has been brought up and Cubists abandoned the Renaissance naturalism, where everything in the picture is seen from a single, fixed viewpoint. (Cubism FAQ) Unfortunately, once World War I began, the meaning of destruction, primal energy and beginning from scratch changed entirely. The great freewheeling, uninhibited Cubist adventure was over. (Michael Brenson, "Picasso and Braque, Brothers in Cubism")
Formal Qualities:
Factory at Horto de Ebro draws heavily both in color and form, in which these are also the elements that necessitate in Cubism. The colors used in the painting was limited, whereas they're only Earth Tone colors: dark grey, black, new port blue, midnight blue, harvest gold, rustic brown etc. The forms of most of the objects in the painting obviously rendered into geometrical elements, including the factory architecture and the natural forms, such as the sky and trees. The objects are representing a three-dimensional piece, with the support of the tone color used to create dark-side and light-side. Although the artist's use of light is completely random, where the dark and light opposed each other, but what it does is, it emphasizes the sharp quality of the outlines.Usually the further the object is, the smaller they are but not in this painting, where the further buildings in the background are tend to stay above the buildings in the foreground.
Style:
As it produced, it was critical to the development of the early Cubist style, in which pieces in the paint to be rendered from multiple of perspectives using simplified geometric shapes such as cubes, pyramids; and also multi-dimensional forms. Equally, there are significant qualities that have made the piece Cubism. Such as, the factory was rendered as shaded cubes where it represents a truly geometric style. Furthermore, the contrast of indigo, navy blue from the shades and the brown ochre from the lighting representing the art piece in the three-dimension reality.
Works Cited:
"Cubism (c.1907-14)." Cubism: History, Characteristics. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2015.
"Factory at Horto De Ebro, 1909 by Pablo Picasso." Factory at Horto De Ebro, 1909 by Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
"MoMA." Pablo Picasso. The Reservoir, Horta De Ebro. Horta De San Joan, Summer 1909. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
"The Meaning of Cubism." Cubism FAQ. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
Brenson, Michael. "Picasso and Braque, Brothers in Cubism." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Sept. 1989. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Cubism." - the First Abstract Style of Modern Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Picasso ~ 50 Most Representative Paintings." Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.