Woman with a Book

I wanted to compare the popular Picasso painting Woman with a Book that I recently had the oppurtunity to see first hand at the Norton Simon Musuem, to a replication done by Bernie Pincus using Rosenbergs Criteria. Clearly the painting on the left lacks composition-richness of formal relationships. When looking at the strokes it does not provide a seamless movement to the stroke in comparison to Picasso's piece. When viewing Picasso's piece the outer lines look incredibly smooth and shapeful.Sensitivity to the fingers in Pincus's replication in the thumb area looks large and the thumb seems to lack the softness. The use of color in Picasso's painting is far more rich, with the deep purples that he uses instead of Pincus's bright yellow which takes away from the mood of solidarity. Further, her cheek in Picasso's painting adds a blushing tone of feminity and is dark and shaded in the comparison. Picasso has far more detail in regards to the window in the back and has captured the shadowing of the mirrored reflection frame; while Pincus's lacks the realistic shadowing. When looking at the body and placement in Picasso's painting he has used his space accordingly adding features of the chair, wall and bottom legs which the other painting is missing. Pincus has only the body featured and has taken up the entire canvas with only the body and has missed the other key components to Picassos' painting having no clear distiniction of planes.

Left:

Woman with a Book

Bernie Pincus

Oil reproduction

Right:

Woman with a Bool

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas