Inspiration from Paintings

La Vie (Life) 1903 - Picasso

As soon as I saw this painting by Picasso the first thing that came to my head was "Affair&Adultery". This is what made me see the idea of the Man hood because it feels like the whole story in this painting is about a man cheating on his wife who has his child.
The colours in this painting a very dull its not bright at all we can see very dark dull blue with grey and white. The colours really bring out the mood in this painting because I could notice that the whole situation is extreme bad and the Male is in the wrong that's why he's hiding away from his original wife.
The woman in the robe with her baby is dressed in  a darker blue which could represent the kind of grief and anger she is going through because she is seeing something that she wasn't expecting from her husband. He restricted his palette to predominately cold colours suggestive of night, mystery, dreams, and death. And this falls into testing Loyalty & Manhood because if he was a great man of loyalty he would have rejected the girl and stayed loyal to his own wife.
Tone's in this painting is very dark and the only light tone we could see in this painting is the tone of the nude male & female's body and also the baby is covered in white material which is also in a light tone because it stands out from what the Woman's dressing it signifies that the baby plays an important role which is that the Male is failing to show loyalty to both of them especially a baby that he has to be raising up.
The painting objects we find in the background are really strongly represented because both the paintings in the background show that the male & female that are having an affair have been hiding.
The body compositions are both really curled up and that shows that there is shame and that they are both afraid of something and that's the same way they are both represented in the painting of them facing the wife and baby.
World of the painting is really about Affair,Loyalty,Family & Manhood because all of these are brought out in this painting the way the colour , tone and lightings are shown gives us a bright idea that the world of this painting is very bad and tragic.
Location would have most probably been in the male & female (with the baby) house's because they seemed to be the married couple and the male is the one that is cheating on his wife.
La Vie means Life and Picasso literately meant that things like this happen in life and I do agree that this is also another way of Testing a man of his Manhood.
Picasso made this painting in 1901, depressed over the suicide of a close friend.






















Massacre in Korea 1951- Picasso
Massacre in Korea is a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean War.
I didn't have to read any information or know the name of this painting to notice the story of this painting the first thing that came to my head was "WAR" and this was because the people in weapons are represented as an army and especially because they are all holding weapons and have some kind of armour on it brings out the idea more them being in some kind of war.

The colours in this image are more bright on the background / location but the actual characters in the painting have a very dull touch of grey/dark blue and 

white on them. The surface there standing on has a bit of green & yellow on the soldier's side and the civilians have a mixture of red & orange and also there background has some bright colours in them.

In this painting we do have various people in them and the people on the right hand side are the practically the soldiers formed in a army and the people on the left hand side seem to be the civilians or citizens of the place who are about he get attacked.

The world of the painting is really aggressive and tragic because we have naked group of men who are armed with weapons & protection against naked people who have nothing but fear.

And because this painting is about the Korean war it felt to my senses that it could relate to our subject matter because the layout of the painting also shows how some people in our today society die at war because they are attacked unexpectedly. 

The location looks like a place were the civilians would have lived and that the army came running up on them in their own place.

<<This is the original painting of the piece but this was made by

Francisco de Goya

But Picasso made his own version but also in this one we can see the 
same message as picasso's version of the painting.


The facial expressions on the people faces look very horrified,scared and worried because they are being attacked by this army which they have nothing against. The tone are very diverse in this painting because we have to very light parts then we have the darker bits in the image for example the body parts of the people in this painting are very dark and it has the shadows are represented in a dark colour because shadows are simply dark in reality.

Seeing this image I straight away thought about manhood because this image shows some kind of man power that just stood out to my eyes and the fact the man is wearing a helmet and has wings makes him look like some kind of warrior / soldier.
Now this image has no diverse colours in it its simple grey & dark tones of white & black but the way this is shown is affective because the wing is very dark and the footwear is also darkly represented and those are like the important features on him. His wings seem to represent his right arm because he hasn't got one and the wing is positioned in that place.


Object that we can see is him standing on a piece of rock and the helmet are the only objects on this painting. 
The world of this painting is more about a strong and independent man 
and this is probably as the reason why its called Winged Hero.
Being a hero plays a big role in testing your manhood because many men have done something heroic to prove there manhood.  
The artist perspective is very different to what I see it as and it made me think that his Idea of the painting is very different because he looked at it from a different sight & he was from a older era with a different mind set.


 The etchings in his early series, Inventions, demonstrate Klee's ability to manipulate line and tonal value to create a figure with strange and grotesque limbs. An artist's inscription in the bottom right corner of the picture explains the underlying concept: "Because this man was born with one wing, he believed he could fly. His attempts, of course, have only resulted in crashes and a broken left arm and leg." The strange creature could very well represent a kind of self-portrait of the typical progressive artist at the turn of the 20th century, perpetually pursuing his full potential while repeatedly struggling against public incomprehension or apathy.


The theme behind this image would have Being a man , Hero and Independence 

This painting falls straight into one of our subject matter which is the reaction of loosing people at war and this shows how some of the war occurs.
This is the actual story of the image The Zulu army had been so successful at Isandlwana, that its reserve force was not even brought into action. It was this part of the Zulu army that was sent to pursue the handful of British survivors. These survivors did not get any further then the old mission station of Rorke’s drift, before the Zulu's were upon them. 

Here they joined the British soldiers that were guarding the mission station that now acted as a supply depot and a small hospital. A fierce battle followed between the 145 defenders of Rorke’s drift and 4,000 Zulu warriors. After ten hours of ferocious fighting, the Zulu’s gave up and just disappeared.  


The colours in this painting are very bright and it shows that it isn't the best event happening but the colours boost more affect to the painting.