picasso and his life

Art and Society


Introduction

Each one of the artists I will discus have very different and individual styles. No artist will draw the human figure the same and there is no correct way of drawing the human figure either. An artist develops his/her style through imagination, feelings, or past experiences e.g. WWI and WWII. Over time styles change and a new way of drawing is discovered. Matisse, Picasso and Moore are my favourite three artists and all differ in their drawings of the human figure.

Henri Moore

Henri Moore was born in Castleford Yorkshire, on July 30, 1898. He was the unlucky son of a coal miner, and many of his works were based on this setting, with portraits of miners and so on. He was discharged from the army in 1919 and began to realize his childhood ambition of being a sculptor was finally going to possibly come true.

Moore was a sculptor that did not follow the rules very well. He created large-scale works in an abstract and biomorphic form. Moore lov...