20th Century Masters

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20th Century Masters 14. What does it take to be
a master artist?
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas,
349 x 776 cm, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
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Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903-04. Oil
on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905.
Oil on canvas, 218.8 x 229.6 cm, National
Gallery of Art.
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Pablo Picasso, Les Desmoiselles DAvignon, 1907.
Oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7 cm, Museum of
Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, 1910.
Oil on canvas, 92 x 65 cm, Pushkin Museum of
Fine Art, Moscow.
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Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians, 1921. Oil on
canvas, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
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Pablo Picasso
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Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse sketching with charcoal
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Henri Matisse, The Dessert Harmony in Red (The
Red Room), 1908 Oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Henri Matisse, Fruit and Coffee Pot, 1898 Oil on
canvas, 38.5 x 46.5 cm, Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia
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Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905 Oil on
canvas, 79.4 x 59.7 cm, San Francisco Museum of
Art
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Henri Matisse, La Danse I, 1909 Oil on canvas,
2604 x 390 cm, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New
York
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Henri Matisse, Odalisque in Red Trousers, c.
1924-25 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm, Musée de
lOrangerie, Paris.
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Henri Matisse, from Jazz series, 1943 Cut paper
and gouche
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Henri Matisse
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Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937
Henri Matisse The Dessert Harmony in Red (The
Red Room) 1908
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Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937

• What is this artwork about?
• When this painting was made, most people would
  have been aware that the small Spanish village of
  Guernica was bombed by Italian and German
  warplanes. The Spanish government believed the
  village contained anti-Fascist rebel fighters.
• Please list what you see.
• What styles and techniques did Picasso use to
  show this to you?
• What do you think Picasso is trying to
  communicate?
• Did he do a good job of communicating it? (Is
  this a good artwork?) Why?