Paintings Picasso

We all have an intuitive feel for complexity. An oil painting by Picasso is obviously more complex than the random finger-paint doodles of a three-year-old. The works of Shakespeare are more complex than the rambling prose banged out on a typewriter by the proverbial band of monkeys. Our intuition tells us that complexity is usually greatest in systems whose components are arranged in some intricate difficult-to-understand pattern or, in the case of a dynamical system, when the outcome of some process is difficult to predict from its initial state. 

F. Cappitelli, F. Koussiaki, THM GCMS and FTIR for the investigation of paints in Picasso s Still Life, Weeping Woman and Nude Woman in a Red Armchair from the Tate Collection, London, J. Anal. Appl. Pyrol., 75, 200 204 (2006). 

Researchers at Texas A M University discovered that mood, blood pressure, and surgery recovery time can be influenced by art — but not just any kind of art. Patients who had Picasso reproductions in their rooms fared worse than those with blank walls, while some of those who gazed at Monet s water lilies recovered more quickly. I think Hans Selye must have loved beautiful paintings, too. After all, he was himself an artist of sorts. He carved part of the cortisol molecule into the cement outside his window when he was living on Milton Street near McGill. It s still there — a silent testimonial to the man my parents dragged me to see on that stressful day so long ago. 

Pablo Picasso, any painting from his blue period, 1901-1904... 

Musical Instruments (painted wood), Pablo Picasso, 1914 Target with Four Faces (canvas and plaster), Jasper Johns, 1955 Radiant White 952 (cardboard and plywood), Robert Rauschenberg, 1971... 

Cubism 1900 to 1950. Some of the artists involved in the cubist movement were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. They broke down form into geometric parts and were not interested in color. For them, form and shapes were more important. They used multiple views of the same object, painting objects as seen from many angles at the same time. Their art was a form of abstraction taken from reality but changed by the artist. 

You might think a memorable picture would have vivid color, an appealing or inspirational theme, or be something you might want to display and look at every day. That is not the case with the picture that is most memorable to me. Rather, it is a large mural, painted in 1937 by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, to protest the bombing of a small village in northern Spain. 

TThe next morning Bob slowly sits up in bed, pushes aside his blankets, and turns on The Today Show. The remote control is temporarily embedded in his right hand. Bob pushes a button, and one of the Picasso paintings on his wall suddenly transforms into a TV screen. 

Fig. 4 shows a closely related idea in Marcel Duchamp s Nude Descending Stairs where we see a multi-view picture of a figure not, as in Picasso s painting, from different positions in space but from different positions in time. Although not a movie, this picture is... 

The most recent and most comprehensive study of synthetic paints using Py-GC/MS was undertaken by T. Learner from the Tate GaUery (London). This article on the analysis of synthetic resins found in 20th-century paint media was published in 1995. There he described the use of two methods, Py-GC/MS and FTIR, for the characterization of 20th-century synthetic resins. In his latest paper, Learner substantially broadens the set of resins, using not just artistic synthetic paints, but also paints intended for other, more commercial or industrial markets, since many modem and contemporary artists used this type of material for their oeuvre (for example, Willem de Kooning, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Frank Stella to name just a few). 

That s one of my relatives who just ran into an inert gas and is all broken up. I think he looks like a Picasso painting. However, he can be put back together sequentially and we will find out where he comes from. 

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