Modern Era Synthesis - Asher.Period.1.Team.8.

Rembrandt’s artistic style was well-known to be detailed as well as extremely emotionally charged. This artist’s greatest creative successes are thoroughly exemplified in his portraits of contemporaries, self-portraits, as well as various scenes from the Bible. His paintings, stylistically, established a transition from the earlier “smooth” manner to the late “rough” treatment of rich paint surfaces. Picasso’s artist style, on the other hand, differed greatly. During his life, he experimented with classical and academic, realistic, and finally analytical and synthetic cubism. In his period of cubism, Picasso became famous for painting people and aspects of society as abstracted shapes. Although these two artists employed diverse and different means of expression, they both held similar opinions and a similar underlying belief regarding society during the Modern Era. This era is known as a period which was at the helm of prosperous advancements. Such advancements included science, politics, warfare, and technology. With all these advancements came an inevitable shift in the mindset of that society. Many people no longer had an interest in the “realism” which Rembrandt implied. For example, in Rembrandt’s iconic painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, emotion is thoroughly and expressively depicted, as several discouraged apostles plead to Jesus Christ to save them from the treacherous storm. The painting vividly illuminates the beastly way in which the ship’s sails are torn which results in a flooded vessel. Picasso contrastingly painted Guernica, which innovatively used various shapes to portray the attack on the Spanish city of Guernica by the Germans and Italians. Picasso’s artwork is credited for its distortion of reality. Guernica became famed during World War II, when innocent, lost, and confused felt as is they could turn to no one. Both painters idealized emotions and explained the turmoil society was intertwined into. They chose to create a depiction which ostracized the suffering of humankind in some shape or form.

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