Monday, 10 December 2012

Cyril Edward Power.



Cyril Edward Power was born on 17 December 1872 in Redcliffe Street, Chelsea, the eldest child of Edward William Power who encouraged him to draw from an early age. This passion led to him studying architecture and working in his father's office before being awarded the Sloane Medallion by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900 for his design for an art school.

Cyril used lino prints in his work to get the desired layered effect. This meant he could build up colours and create an almost 3D effect in his pieces.This made his images look much more professional and not flat. His use of curved lines made his images look more complex than they actually were. this was because it put scale into the pictures making the smaller images at the back look further away.

Pablo Picasso


Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor,printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. 
Picasso showed early signs of being an artist, being able to paint realistic images in ihis early childhood and adolescent years.