Activity 1: Aesthetics- Objective Critique

This piece by Pablo Picasso shows a portrait of a girl from the chest up wearing a yellow sunhat with a black ribbon. The girl is wearing blue and green clothing with something white over her shoulders. Her face is abstracted, with a large nose and lips on a bean-shaped head. The face is painted with the colors white, red, green, and blue from left to right in that order. The left eye is colored red and the right eye is colored green, both have see-through eye whites that show the face's different colors underneath. The girl has a large black scribble on the right side of her face and a black diamond around her neck. There is also a large black space to the left of her face that could represent hair or black fabric hanging off the hat. The background is a single color that shows multiple paint streaks. The portrait of the girl takes up the majority of the canvas. The artist shows contrast through value by painting a large amount of black next to the stark white of the face. The artist creates emphasis on the face through color, making half the face a warm red against the cool colors green and blue. The artist creates unity in the piece through the multiple black and white lines in the painting, the vertical and curved lines are painted on the chest, face, and hair. Some Elements of Art and Principles of Design are visible in this work of art.