+1 862 207 3288 Figure 24.12 Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Oil on Canvas
Figure 24.60 Piete Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930. Oil on Canvas
Figure 25.6 Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950. 1950. Oil on Canvas
Figure 26.9. Kehinde Wiley. Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps. 2005. Oil on Canvas
Answer these questions about the paintings
Describe what each of these works is designed to communicate.
What was Picasso’s reasoning for depicting figures that don’t look naturalistic?
What is Mondrian’s Composition about?
What is Pollocks work about?
In each of these three examples you should discuss how the formal qualities (the elements and
principles of design) lead to meaning in each of the works.
Finally, in the Wiley example, discuss how formal qualities and iconography especially lend to the
work’s meaning.
