Picasso is said to have written the date of execution in the bottom side of the picture for the convenience of future researchers.
The catalog numbers which are based on the date can be used as the titles of the picture.
I arranged the digital images online by the title of [Reclining Nude] .
The digital image is a new medium of art in this century.
To study Picasso the titling is important because each work is different experiment.
Each has unique design.
[Reclining Nude 32-042] which has solid balance like archaic sculpture seems to be made of simple scale.
I start with this picture as it looks obvious that Picasso used a sort of device like circle- rulers.
Picasso [Reclining Nude 32-042] / circle-arc model /scale
The model shows that three compositional techniques are used: 1) The design is made of limited circles. (scale)
2) There are points on which more than three circles intersect. (pivot)
3) More than three pivots are lined. (pivot lining)
I have already explained about these three techniques.
As I recognize another technique in this simple model,
I made the largest circle(red) thicker.
A circle with the horizontal and vertical diameters can make a unit which I call circle-cross unit.
The extended circle of the left foot can be moved down vertically to match the extended circle of the right foot .
The circle of the left arm can be moved to match the neck.
Pink circle-cross units also are used the same way.
The circle of the right thigh can be moved to match the left leg.
And sliding it to the left, it can be matched to the circle of the left arm.
The circle of the left upper arm can be moved to match the back side of the head.
In the next picture the limbs are exaggerated.
Four different-sized circles (blue. orange, green, purple) make the basic structure.
The largest light blue circles are the most important for the basic structure.
I made one sky blue circle deep colored to make it easier to see.
All the blue arcs are within the triangle which is made by connecting the three points (the top right corner, lower right corner and lower left corner).
Two intersecting points of the blue circles (pivots) are outside of the frame and one is on the right side.
One of the third largest green unit and two forth largest purple units are lined on the horizontal diameter of the deep blue unit.
The basic one of the largest red circles is shown in thicker line.
Seven units of different size are lined along the horizontal diameter of this largest circle-cross unit.
Picasso could have been great architect.
Renaissance artist could produce not only painting but also ornament, sculpture and architecture.
Understanding all the types of art is essential to become real artist.
[Reclining Nude 32-079] reminds me of gemstone: every part is packed like a bud.
The large red units make the basic structure.
All the red arcs are within the triangle that linked top right corner, bottom right corner and bottom left corner.
I colored the same red circle-cross unit in two hues (brownish red, vermilion)for explanation sake.
The two brownish red circles touch at a point: the horizontal diameters are connected (shown within the parallel purple lines).
On this horizontal line a blue unit and two yellow units are placed.
There is another pair of red circles which intersect( within the pallarel black lines).
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The upper body starts opening like a flowering bud.
The four circle-cross units (sky blue, red, orange, purple)make the basic structure.
I made one of the five light blue circles thicker, which is basic.
The vertical diameter of the basic circle is placed on the center of the picture frame.
Three smaller units (a pink unit and two purple units) are on the horizontal diameter of the basic circle.
The second largest red circle's tangent line is the same as the vertical tangent line of the basic circle.
One orange unit is on the vertical diameter of the red unit and another orange unit is on the horizontal diameter .
Here in Japan they say that Picasso's works are like children's painting.
The majority of Japanese does not have any doubt that Sharaku was an amateur painter; a No-actor.
It seems for me that most Japanese in these days cannot see a painting formally.
We do't say that we see Manga but that we read Manga: painting is an illustration.
The lyric is more important than the sound in popular song for most of Japanese.
After finishing Japanese version of this blog, I happened to find You Tube Video [Picasso 1932: Love, Fame,Tragedy at Tate].
As the title suggests ,
any online articles about this show are about Picasso's life and the paintig is by product of the great artist's life.
None of them are referring to formal aspect of Picasso.
Modern Art was one aspect of Modernism but unfortunately there were no serious art critics who could equal structuralistic scholars like Jacobson or Chomsky.
I have previously classified four levels of seeing;
1) Seeing with referential knowledge,
2) Seeing symbolically,
3) Iconic seeing,
4) Formal seeing.
Formal seeing is innate act without referring any knowledge, which can be the base for the other three ways of seeing..
On this level the imaginative power works in the same way for Picasso and Einstein.
Art is significant because it is created on normative level.
