I.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. C Wassily Kandinsk
2. C Black Grid by Wassily Kandinsky
3. B Soft Construction With Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War
4. D Surrealism
5. D Salvador Dali

II. ESSAY

The Weeping Woman (1937, Oil on Canvas) was one of the famous portraits by
Pablo Picaso, executed in the art movement of Cubism. It was based on an image of a
woman holding her dead child, depicts an anguished, sobbing female, who holds a
handkerchief up to her face to catch her copious tears. I describe it as Cubism because
the artist used angular and overlying fragments of the subject's face, as if it were painted
from diverse viewpoints concurrently. In order to emphasize the two-dimensional nature
of the work, Picasso makes no endeavor to produce 'depth' in the portrait, by the usage
of linear perspective or any type of modelling/shading like chiaroscuro.

The bean-shaped head, complementarily precariously on the point of a triangular

neck, is enclosed by dense blackness. The subsequent sense of compression is
heightened by the flattened forms of the mantilla, whose open weave of lace is
paradoxically exemplified by thick, crisscrossing lines. The woman's skin is bright white.
Her nose and cheek are flushed with hot magenta; her acidic green lips shaded with pale,
icy blue. The vivid yellow blouse framing her knotted fingers shrieks against the blackness
of the background while her red-orange hair hums against the complementary greens of
the mantilla framing her head. Look closely at her eyes and the silhouette of a plane is
seen in each eye. The sobbing eyes and the handkerchief are dramatic inventions. Thick,
black lines stream weightily from the eyes, which are themselves shaped like teardrops.
The handkerchief adjacent is a crumpled cloud, which Picasso has muddled with an
agitated storm of scribbled pencil lines. The use of distorted images and an Expressionism
vibe surround this painting.

III. ART ACTIVITY