Transform ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' to new artwork ''Hong Kong Girls''
Artist :Pablo Piccaso
Year:1907
Type:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:243.9 cm × 233.7 cm (96 in × 92 in)
Edith Lam
Kitman Leung
Type: Water Painting
Title: Hong Kong Girls
Transform ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' to new artwork ''Hong Kong Girls''
The original work is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon originally titled The Brothel of Avignon. It is a large oil painting of 1907painted by Picasso (1881–1973). And our work is Hong Kong Girls. Hong Kong Girls is a new terms those HK males describing girls in Hong Kong. Basically, the complaint is that girls in Hong Kong are money-greedy, too emphasize on out looking, weight-obsessive and have unreasonably high expectations for guys. This painting is not complaining Hong Kong girls, but describing the difficulty of being a girl in Hong Kong. We chose this painting because the main subject is girls and the girls in the painting is describing in a confident way. Confident seem a suitable word to describe Hong Kong girls but the confidence not come from themselves, it come from other external factors. We will go deep on five important similarities and differences between the two works; they are subject matter, style, composition, color and tone.
The new artwork has a great contrast than the original one as the usage of the color, the material and the brushstroke.
Firstly, we use the makers to depict the shadow of those women, in order to highlight the shade of the women and make the work much more iron. Moreover, the usage of markers commonly used to draw the scrawl, so it can make the artwork easier to contrast with the nude women and main ideas of iron Hong Kong Girl. Compare with the original one, the original one only use oil material to depict the artwork .The contradiction made between the artwork and the ideas seem not enough.
When it comes to the color, there come to different between these two artworks .The new artwork, we can find that there are not only blue or cold color at all. But also depict by some warm color such as the pink or the peaceful green, which make the painting much more vivid and peacefully to read. But the original only cold and dark in tone which the artwork make you feeling sad .This also made the work too consistent , in order to depict that the diversify life in Hong Kong we use some sharp colors to depict this symbol .
Compare with the original artwork and the new one, the rhythm of the original is consistent and evenly, but the new artwork seem that it is random and seem not organized. You can find that apart from the oil material , we cut and paste the bags , the teen model and the technology in this painting , it seems that it makes the artwork seem messy , but this also can emphasis the characters of the Hong Kong Girl , for example pursuit of the brand name products , teens model est. and the original artwork , the nude women and the background do really seem to have a well organization and consistent,Moreover the line is also in order , but the main idea of this artwork still been not yet emphasized by Picasso , as we can see he only put the model evenly in the painting .
Moreover, the brushstroke of the new artwork different than the original one. At the new artwork, we put the brushstroke without any organized and seem messy. But the brushstroke of Picasso of his artwork does look neatly also.
When it comes to subject matters , the original artwork separate the women into parts , the first party depict of the African-life mask model and another party depict the Liberian style of the Spanish , but the new artwork separated the women into three parts , the woman in the left represent the women in Hong Kong pursuit of the slim , and the woman who are hopping up representing the Women in Hong Kong like to look strong and better than the men .Moreover , the right hand side of the woman is a teen model who are in a hot issue in Hong Kong nowadays and finally the subject which is on the bottom , which represent that the women in Hong Kong also like to pursuit the development of the technology . In sum up, we can find that the new artwork seem to have much detailed depict of the character of the women.
Next, we will talk about the similarities between two works. It will be separated as five parts-- subject matter, style, composition, color and tone.
First, the subject matter of two works is also female. The original work of Picasso is presenting unconventionally feminine. Their body shapes are distorted and angular. This point is matched with our own work. The girls are with angular body and distorted proportion and unusual face. Also, Picasso emphasize that they are young ladies.(the English of the title is "The Young Ladies of Avignon") Our work is also about young ladies but in Hong Kong. Our work's subject matter is about the difficulties of being Hong Kong girls. One more point is that two works express the same idea-- feminism. They both want to reflect the social phenomenon.
Second, the similarities of style are that they are the same feeling. Two works are use straight and rough lines. The lines of ladies' body are in same style. They are angular and also display different angles. Out work also use the style of Guernica.
Third, the composition is similar. Picasso described five nude female figures. Our work also portrays five figures. The position is similar too. Two ladies in left side, one in the center, and one at the back of the right side and one in the front of right side too. The five ladies appear in the painting averagely in two works. Their size is similar. They show almost the whole body in the painting. Their level of two works is also similar. The three ladies in left and center are on similar level. And the back of right side is in the highest level when the front one at right is the lowest. The rough composition is the same in two works.
Forth, the similarities of color in two works are comparatively little. The background is similar when they also use brown, grey and blue. Not only the color but the composition of the background is the same. Also, they use nude color on the nude bodies (some are not in our work). The texture of color is similar. They are rough and hard and near with nature.
Last, one of the similarities of tone is about the faces of the figures. Look at the ladies' facial expression, it is so alike. The tone is moody and a little bit sad. Their face are doleful and without strong emotion. So, the whole tone of the works is identical.
To sum up, we want to change the original work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to present the feature of nowadays girl in Hong Kong. They seem confident as the girls painted in the original work, but Hong Kong girl needs some external factors to build up the confidence. Therefore, two types of girls in two paintings are different as one is nude and another one are adding a lot of external factors.
By Dora Lui (1148469)
Editha Lam(1101148)
Kitman Leung (1183328)
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