Picasso Pablo verses Kitagawa Utamaro

  Artist Picasso Pablo and Kitagawa Utamaro are my favorite artists in this chapter. Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, and he is also best known for a wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrates uncanny artistic talent in his early years, and changed his style based on different theories, techniques, and ideas. Kitagawa was a print maker and painter. He was considered woodblock prints and best known for his masterfully composed studies of woman. He uses particular views and emphasis on light and shade.

There are some similarities between Picasso and Kitagawa. They are representational artists; most of their artworks reflect a beauty of human and human’s life. As their artworks from both left and right sides of middle portion, they choose particular people of specific area like Japan or France and, then, draw characteristics of its appearance or its cultural activities on canvas. For instance, one of Kitagawa’s artworks shows how a Japanese woman spent her day in that century- role of Japanese women were housing, taking care of the children, assisting their husband, and keeping their beauty- the woman from this scene shows her choice of clothing texture. Additionally, their artworks are very detail. I can feel and imagine the real appearance and cultural life as well as much when I see their artworks.

Picasso’s paintings are very fantastic. He does not use formal lines, shapes, and sizes of the real appearance of human at his drawings. He started his drawings at specific person but he changes appearance by mood and characteristics. For example, a sad woman from one of his paintings, which sharp shapes and division by dark colors unlike peacefulness sleeping woman from above picture which has soft shapes and painted by light colors. Moreover, he changed the appearance by social class, position, and century like the rest of his artwork. The noble man expressed with curved long hairstyle, stylish and colorful cloth, and long mustache. However, businessman expressed with shortly sharp hair, simply cloth, and sharp face with dark paint. It is amazing that discover several characteristics or each person based on the background.

Unlike Picasso’s paintings, Kitagawa artworks are non-colorful and followed original forms, lines, and shapes like photos. Everything from his paintings like the clothes, folding fans, and appearances are not bright and unclear as a background. Moreover, he was expressing characteristics of Japanese woman as well as exactly alive person in his paintings. He showed up Japanese woman’s beauty with grand and tall hairstyle, long traditional cloth called ‘kimono’, and folding fans. He gave details in every piece of hairs and eyebrows and folding area of each clothes. His brush techniques are amazing and detailed.

Even though human drawing is not my favorite topic, - I love to draw the details of the landscape- their paintings bring me strong impression. Each their artwork is very special and has their own strong personality. Therefore, I started to love their artworks.