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Paper Abstract: Analysis of two paintings depicting female nudes. Eugene Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapolus" (1826), & Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d-Avignon" (1907). Similarity of their approach as representing something new in artistic terms. Artistic interplay of time and space. Delacroix's use of male sexual fantasy. Picasso's formulation of Cubist ideas; subject matter of prostitutes. Paper Introduction: Eugène Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus (1826) and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) were painted only eighty years apart and demonstrate the immense changes that had taken place in painting in that span of time. Curiously, however, they display a remarkable similarity in their approach to subject matter which may not be immediately apparent. Both of these paintings represented something new in artistic terms. Delacroix drew on his imaginative faculty for fantasy in a swirling, boldly painted, brilliantly colored composition that used space as expressively as other elements. Picasso's early formulation of Cubist ideas, on the other hand, sought to represent an interplay of time and space rather than a more traditional replication of the real world. But both painters used the female nude as the key element in their works; an Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. thatspan of time Curiously however Delacroix drew on his imaginative faculty for fantasy in of the real world But both the nature of the subject For nomatter how treated as an exotic other' interms of gender difference As defeated Assyrianking But in the painting orgiastic destruction are slaughtered and everything is heaped between the deep redsand brown shadows and and the subject is essentially literary evenin appear to conform to Honour'sdescription of Romantic art as taps into thefantasies of both the artist and other possessions of the king that was seen as presumes theaudience for which he intended the painting In order destruction becomes the center of theviewer's experience by the slightest trace of involvement Sardanapalus' which are thus made exactly the questionof male desire and the women wasoriginally titled The Philosophical Bordello and was to have light district Thepainting that emerged was something side of the picture reflect theinfluence of Iberian more ambiguous planes suggesting a combinationof views as if view while her headand right arm are shown frontally Despite work the sexual display of the women isunambiguous quoted their role as prostitutes clear broad range of pictorial subject matter it did In Delacroix's representation of his fantasy in a more modern subject Just as no onecould to saythat this reimagining of the story was absurd exotic locales It might be said that thepicture argues that another Picasso's appropriation of the presentation ofa scene that is also hidden from view proceeding thatwas not unique but of by theworld at large in terms that a world where their fate is inthe hands their status as other'than is Delacroix's appropriation of the the artist and some viewers In doing so they emphasize including women as well as menwho might not capable of many kinds ofbehavior climate clothing work or food but in terms of entirelydifferent order of being from oneself in ways they could not imagine Similarly justas many members different set of moral standards ways it is accurate therefore and over Works CitedHonour Hugh Romanticism excerpt Art the Ages th ed Fort Worth Harcourt College names may bedifferent etc eighty years apart anddemonstrate the immense changes that apparent Both of these paintings the otherhand sought to represent an interplay of time exoticism and even violence demonstratesthat no matter how are five naked or partially Picasso's subject Delacroix derived his subject from a narrative poem accumulation of hispossessions his women the women are among the mostconspicuous objects in The violence of the scene and the title but by knowledge ofSardanapalus' painting it in this manner isconsiderable since with its is in itself anindication that he was fascinated by the material goods and disdain for theseobjects clearly had a which the still brooding figure of the king presid ing al He rests his head on his hand and None of the persons being value solely fromhis desire for attain in terms of men'sdesire i e the nudes remained although the so that any conventional notion right whose faces wererepainted under the inspiration of African best be seen in the seated figurewho is simultaneously of a means of paint ing of thesecond and third figures and the direct almost challenging lustfulresponse This is how Picasso at once was part of the seen as a means of allowing himself to so no one at least with of hisaudience were already primed to accept any sexually-tinged violence-ladenversion who couldnever conceive of themselves in such situations reflects an interest in alternative styles of of a bordello on display in inhabitants' behavior much like thatof ancient Assyrian prostitutes are social outcasts cutoff from sexualservices Displaying women as prostitutes as sexual objects point out that the violent eroticism ofDelacroix's painting broader sense in which the fantasy is acceptable to nearly shared cultural assumption that thosewho not and is not conceived indifference it is often necessary to this common culturalbias Nearly every member of Delacroix's audience a prostitute These women were the audience otherand lesser order of being in order to facilitate their in an art that depicted S Christin J Mamiya and Gardner's So Iassumed that it was the Eug ne Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus they display a remarkable similarity intheir approach to a swirling boldlypainted brilliantly colored composition that used space as painters used thefemale nude as the key element in wrapped up they are in Delacroix's emotional narrative orPicasso's simultaneous an other they are subject to the overtviolence depicted in replaces the sacrificialsuicide described by Byron Kleiner Mamiya Tansey In on his funeral pyre Kleiner their pale flesh and the extreme poses its painted form since it can only be the expression of the artist's own personalliving experience However the some viewers Kleiner et al The change in apeculiarly oriental version of tyranny The combination to maximize theimpact of this making him the one calm element detachment is an expression of equivalent in value is of anyaccount if he is not depicted are defined in this particularsetting solely in depictedclients mingling with the prostitutes The new in art as Picasso eliminated thebackground more or less sculpture and they have a more classic easilyreadable appearance the figures are seen from more than one place in the fact that Picasso's primary interest in the painting canbe in Kleiner et al The number of women theraised-arms These are women who areputting themselves on display isinteresting that the frustration of not being able of an ancient Middle-Eastern king the artist allowed his imagination really say what the event or But even more importantly the the psychology of the people depicted by Delacroix African sculptors' means ofrepresentation just like the similar use although in a somewhat different wayfrom the historical distance still retained its aura of the forbidden and theclandestine are all the more titillating for of the men who are nude female in his fantasy of maledomination and the male sexual fantasy and the evenmore limited audience be interested in violent portrayals of sexually attractiveobjects that are proscribed by one's own moral difference as well In order to adoptthis stance Both these splendid paintings thatdid so much to alter the of the audience for Picasso's painting could or if they happenedto be more to look atthe current of Western representational History C Reader Ed Bruce Publishers NOTE TO CLIENT You did not include bibliographic had taken place in painting in represented something new in artistic terms and space rather than a moretraditional replication innovative their approaches to painting they stillshared fundamental assumptions about draped women andthey are although in very different ways by Byron Sardanapalus which treated the suicide of the slaves horses and treasure as the livingbeings the painting as the contrast its exotictrappings intrigue the viewer legend The picture may not exotic and erotic overtones it notion of the careless waste ofhuman life and powerful pull for the artist and one like a geniusof evil over the panorama of surveys the wildscene in front of him without slain or the beautiful objects tobe burned them Picasso's very different painting also revolves around in the commercial terms of prostitution The painting titlestill refers to a well known street in Barcelona's red of pictorial spaceis gone The three women on the left sculpture are more radicallyconceived a collection of presented in a three-quarter back forms as I thinkthem as the artist said of his stares ofmost of them make has depicted them and although Cubismeventually encompassed a impetus to break downspace and time as Picasso express things thatwould not be as well received any authority would be likely of life in Asia or other except as a fantasy of onekind or representation Theexoticism inherent in his painting resides instead in his a work of art a tyrants and their concubines is conceived the rest of society and existing in in thismanner is therefore no less a matter of assuming was a fantasy only of all thepotential members of Delacroix's audience are not a part of one's own culture are of onlyin terms of relatively superficial differences such as see the other as an would assume that peoplein ancient Assyria behaved assumed motivated by a wholly commercialinteractions with them In some the samething in one guise or another over Richard G Tansey Gardner's Art through ed If not the authors' and Pablo Picasso'sLes Demoiselles d'Avignon were painted only subject matter which may not be immediately expressively asother elements Picasso's early formulation of Cubist ideas on their works an analysis of theirpaintings in terms of gender representation of time and space the main'attractions' of both canvases Delacroix's painting and the social violence inherentin Delacroix'spicture the king lies on a bed gloomily surveying the et al The bodies of draw theviewer's attention to them read' when one possesses thenecessary information supplied not just by personal expression involved infantasizing this version of the story and the narrative invented by Delacroix of sensualindulgence in terms of women and idea or perhaps ideal Delacroix devised a compositionin in the picture Kleiner et the patriarchal order carriedto extremes going to live since they gain their terms of the value they can conception however changed ashe worked on it and eventually only merging the figures with the remaining bits ofdrapery and architecture The two women on the space atonce Kleiner et al This can said to be the development poses the provocative draping of the lower halves in a manner intended to provoke a to present all thecharms of the female body to run free and thesubject might be even the trappings of Assyrian royalty looked like painting reveals the extent to which the artist and much isinherently different from that of the artist and his audience of ancient Iberian sculpture merely Delacroix relied upon Instead Picasso putsthe interior This is a world whose the lack ofspecific knowledge Women who work as willing or unwilling to pay for their violence Kleiner et al are careful to for combining violence and sexual fantasy But thereis a That sense is the widely society The essential'difference' between them and us' was toward the other in order to control the threat inherent course of the art reflect not conceiveof the life of familiar with them necessarily conceived of them as an painting as the constantreinvention of the means of representation Robertson New York McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing Kleiner Fred info on your edition of thatspan of time Curiously however Delacroix drew on his imaginative faculty for fantasy in of the real world But both the nature of the subject For nomatter how treated as an exotic other' interms of gender difference As defeated Assyrianking But in the painting orgiastic destruction are slaughtered and everything is heaped between the deep redsand brown shadows and and the subject is essentially literary evenin appear to conform to Honour'sdescription of Romantic art as taps into thefantasies of both the artist and other possessions of the king that was seen as presumes theaudience for which he intended the painting In order destruction becomes the center of theviewer's experience by the slightest trace of involvement Sardanapalus' which are thus made exactly the questionof male desire and the women wasoriginally titled The Philosophical Bordello and was to have light district Thepainting that emerged was something side of the picture reflect theinfluence of Iberian more ambiguous planes suggesting a combinationof views as if view while her headand right arm are shown frontally Despite work the sexual display of the women isunambiguous quoted their role as prostitutes clear broad range of pictorial subject matter it did In Delacroix's representation of his fantasy in a more modern subject Just as no onecould to saythat this reimagining of the story was absurd exotic locales It might be said that thepicture argues that another Picasso's appropriation of the presentation ofa scene that is also hidden from view proceeding thatwas not unique but of by theworld at large in terms that a world where their fate is inthe hands their status as other'than is Delacroix's appropriation of the the artist and some viewers In doing so they emphasize including women as well as menwho might not capable of many kinds ofbehavior climate clothing work or food but in terms of entirelydifferent order of being from oneself in ways they could not imagine Similarly justas many members different set of moral standards ways it is accurate therefore and over Works CitedHonour Hugh Romanticism excerpt Art the Ages th ed Fort Worth Harcourt College names may bedifferent etc eighty years apart anddemonstrate the immense changes that apparent Both of these paintings the otherhand sought to represent an interplay of time exoticism and even violence demonstratesthat no matter how are five naked or partially Picasso's subject Delacroix derived his subject from a narrative poem accumulation of hispossessions his women the women are among the mostconspicuous objects in The violence of the scene and the title but by knowledge ofSardanapalus' painting it in this manner isconsiderable since with its is in itself anindication that he was fascinated by the material goods and disdain for theseobjects clearly had a which the still brooding figure of the king presid ing al He rests his head on his hand and None of the persons being value solely fromhis desire for attain in terms of men'sdesire i e the nudes remained although the so that any conventional notion right whose faces wererepainted under the inspiration of African best be seen in the seated figurewho is simultaneously of a means of paint ing of thesecond and third figures and the direct almost challenging lustfulresponse This is how Picasso at once was part of the seen as a means of allowing himself to so no one at least with of hisaudience were already primed to accept any sexually-tinged violence-ladenversion who couldnever conceive of themselves in such situations reflects an interest in alternative styles of of a bordello on display in inhabitants' behavior much like thatof ancient Assyrian prostitutes are social outcasts cutoff from sexualservices Displaying women as prostitutes as sexual objects point out that the violent eroticism ofDelacroix's painting broader sense in which the fantasy is acceptable to nearly shared cultural assumption that thosewho not and is not conceived indifference it is often necessary to this common culturalbias Nearly every member of Delacroix's audience a prostitute These women were the audience otherand lesser order of being in order to facilitate their in an art that depicted S Christin J Mamiya and Gardner's So Iassumed that it was the If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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