| Pablo Picasso is one of the most celebrated (and | | | | children, in bright colors, they dance around a central |
| sometimes reviled) artist of the last century. His art | | | | dove figure. Joy and peace and hope in the future of |
| represents much of the change in the way people | | | | youth though in many ways a common theme this |
| have started to think about art, certainly such power to | | | | picture is unique because Picasso is one of the |
| affect cultural change makes his art unique and of | | | | primary inspirations behind this them. Further the hope |
| interest in your child's education. However you | | | | behind this theme, much like the hope held by parents |
| probably still wonder if this art is worth using as | | | | for their baby make this picture a good choice to |
| nursery decoration. After all the art you hang on your | | | | grace the walls of the babies nursery. |
| babies wall is normally cute bright and cheery. Many of | | | | Maternity is another good choice for nursery decor, |
| Picasso's pictures and much of his life can be said to | | | | showing perhaps the most important event to a young |
| be much the opposite. | | | | child, that of nursing, it is a calm warm and gentle |
| Picasso however as a person did do many admirable | | | | picture. One of Picasso's few famous figures with only |
| things that are worth being inspired by, he worked | | | | slight elongations. Such disproportions in this case are |
| towards a dream despite great poverty, and he | | | | very subtle, helping to enhance the calm composition |
| founded an arts magazine, again while impoverished. | | | | of the picture as a whole. It is a beautiful picture |
| While the poverty and success of an artist do not | | | | showing Picasso's love for the process of childhood |
| necessarily make the art great, they do help to indicate | | | | and the future, and which can help pass that love onto |
| both the belief which the artist had in their art and the | | | | your child. |
| power the art had to expand into the public mind. Both | | | | Within the Realm of Cubism there are a number of |
| of these things are important, as the reflect the level of | | | | choices available, one good one is "The Violin and the |
| visual value that such art can have. | | | | Guitar" This picture is done in reddish and orange earth |
| Picasso seemed to rather then have a single set of | | | | tones so it is not so bright as one would expect |
| art on which he worked, to be a visual explorer | | | | nursery wall art to be. However it has a strong |
| attempting to discover new forms of art. It is in this | | | | compositional sense that can help visually train a child |
| exploration of art that he came to found Cubism, and | | | | to better understand the more modern methods of art |
| to influence many other movements of art. For his | | | | communication. This perhaps in many ways is what |
| work holds a huge depth of visual ranges. This gives | | | | would make Picasso such a good artist to include in |
| parents who wish to include one of his works in the | | | | the nurseries decor, that he helped to form our cultures |
| nursery a huge range of works, looks, and feels with | | | | visual language means that his works can be used to |
| which to do so. | | | | help teach such visual language. It is after all only |
| One work that might be of particular interest as | | | | through exposure that people can truly learn to |
| nursery decor is "The Dance of Youth." A fairly | | | | appreciate such works. And the appreciation of art |
| childlike drawing in one sense it has figures which are | | | | can only make the world richer and more beautiful for |
| much more fluid and dynamic then those drawn by | | | | your child in the future. |