In modern society,people created amount of arts, this time we are going to contrast two of paintings which are the representative in postmodern abstract. The screaming made by Norwegian expressionist artist Edvard Munch . We contrasts with The Brothel of Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. We are going to contrast them from three criteria they are lines tones and figure characters.
The world is composed of lines, and are living in a four dimensional space which is composed of point line and surface also time. We usually see painting which is made by artist is a flat, but as you know, oil painting is not flat. Artist use variety pigments and lines to make a art, for example in The Scream, the artist use many curves to portray sky and river, and use straight lines to portray the road and bridge. Compare with The Screaming The Brothel of Avignon’s lines is more soft, I think the reason is if the artist wants to describe young girls naked body he must use soft lines. Even though lines can help artist create a frame, but the important of the painting are lights and tone.
How do we see this world colorful? Because different frequency of the reflection of the items that made items vivid into our eyes. The human eye can see millions and millions colors, and those colors becomes the tool the artist who create art. For example in The scream Edvard Munch uses orange to describe the shy instead of blue, and use dark black to describe the river, that realistic contrast makes man feel oppressive. Compare with The Brothel of Avignon the latter has a little bit more reality, the painter utilized pink to describe girls skin which are reddening, he uses two different colors brown and white to separate the whole painting, that makes spectators speculate what are those girls doing.Lines give the frame, colors transmit the mood, and the figure or the main character give the painting soul.
What is a good painting? A painting which can touches your soul and makes you think deeply about it . The scream, whole painting were painted by cool tone, the main character are stand in the center of the scene, he is creaming, and his hands covering ears, look at his face, he is anxious. That all elements make you to speculate what was the story behind it. if you know the artist, his lifetime and the years when he paint it you would know why this painting is so repressive. The Brothel of Avignon according to the name, we can know this painting is must be about the girl’s life at Brothel in Avignon, according the phone we can see those girls are naked, but the painter doesn’t draw their organ of generation five girls are standing their facial organs are screwy, and they have different poses, it makes me feel they are trying to play up to somebody.
People have ability to discover the world, they can record things men and everything happened around their life, and artists are same. The screaming were made by 1983, the red background from a source the volcano eruption in Indonesia 1883. The Brothel in Avignon’s painter Pablo Picasso was very rich. We finally know why he could create this art, and why those girls are trying to play to him.