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Article: Three Musicians. (painting by Pablo Picasso)(includes related articles)
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- School Arts
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- October 1, 1996
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Three Musicians is an example of Picasso's Cubist style. In Cubism, the subject of the artwork is transformed into a sequence of planes, lines, and arcs. Cubism has been described as an intellectual style because the artists analyzed the shapes of their subjects and reinvented them on the canvas. The viewer must reconstruct the subject and space of the work by comparing the different shapes and forms to determine what each one represents. Through this process, the viewer participates with the artist in making the artwork make sense.
There are several ways Picasso uses shapes and colors to reinforce the flatness of Three Musicians. The patterned green wallpaper ...