Modern Synthesis Question Although Rembrandt and Picasso's artistic style are dramatically different, but their social statements can be easily understood even if their artistic styles are at opposite ends. Rembrandt's artistic style are just clear portraits of people. But his style of painting portraits which gives most of his paintings their soft, peaceful, and fluid feeling. Most of Rembrandt's paintings are of people enjoying everyday activities, such as picnicking at a park, although the painting seems like it is depicting the freedom and happy-go-lucky atmosphere, the darker shades of color he used in his painting help bring out the underlying meaning in his work. The lighter colors represent the false atmosphere people bring themselves to believe during war times, and darker shades of color represent the Great War that was going on at that same time, the pain and sacrifices that the soldiers are making while people at home are having fun and laughing. Picasso's cubism is similar to Rembrandt's darker shading in only of expressing the horrors of war. The different between these two artists was that Picasso did not take on the representative approach like what Rembrandt did with his paintings, Picasso used abstract Impressionism instead. He used cubism which was a very blurred style of art as a way to show how war was blurred during times of war. For instance, governments would restrict the pictures and news during World War I in order to prevent the general populace from knowing the true horrors that their soldiers were facing. Rembrandt and Picasso's artistic style of art were and their way of bringing out their hidden meanings were drastically different, but the social statements they wanted to portray were the same. Period 5 team 3 Paulina Alvarez, Emily Teraoka, Angela Oh, Karen Cao