4 artists who have their own Google Doodle
Personajes famosos Picasso Tàpies Juan Gris Andy Warhol Arte arte 2.0Numerous artists have been honored by Google in its creative doodles. Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tàpies, Andy Warhol… Below we present some curious Google Doodles dedicated to famous painters in which you will see how art and new technologies converge in a novel result.
Pablo Picasso
The cubist genius could not but head this list of doodles dedicated to illustrious artists.
This interesting doodle (published on October 25, 2002) celebrates the 121st anniversary of the birth of Pablo Picasso, the painter from Malaga who, with his peculiar vision of art, revolutionized the panorama of the early avant-gardes.
Cubism, a style he developed during his artistic maturity and of which he became the main representative, is one of the most internationally recognizable, resulting in unmistakably personal figurations like those we see in the image, where archaic faces -almost daydreams of beings reduced to their simplest forms- make up the logo of the famous search engine.
If you want to know more about cubism and other creative stages of Pablo Picasso you will find several articles about the life and work of this outstanding painter on our blog.
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies is one of the most international Catalan painters and, as we can see, he also has his own Google Doodle, which was released on December 13, 2013, the date on which the painter would have turned 90 years old.
Antoni Tàpies' artistic career is rich and complex, although his most recognized contribution inevitably refers us to his great research work with matter, being one of the great masters of the informalist movement and matter painting
Tàpies dedicated a large part of his life to experimenting with different materials previously foreign to the world of fine arts, such as rags, wood, sand, or the emblematic marble dust, seeking to squeeze their expressive potential to the maximum.
Tàpies' works are, in this way, a kind of complete, well-rounded compositions, in which matter is, at the same time, medium, concept, and theme. Delve deeper into the paintings of this valued artist and learn about his career on the subastareal.es blog.
Andy Warhol
The genius of color and serigraphy -and a great figure of the American Pop Art Movement- Andy Warhol is another of the great artistic icons of the 20th century whom Google honors following the very principles of his artistic philosophy.
Thus, as we can see in this Warholian Google Doodle, the motif is reproduced four times with slight chromatic variations on backgrounds of different contrasting flat colors, evoking the omnipresent and yet controversial concept of "reproducibility of works of art", one of the most fertile debates in the 20th-century art scene.
You can learn more about the pop art movement and the controversial artist Andy Warhol by clicking here.
Juan Gris
We started this post talking about Pablo Picasso, one of the most celebrated painters in all of history. However, like any artist, the Malaga native also had his pictorial references, one of those who generated the most impact on his work being the cubist painter Juan Gris.
This beautiful doodle commemorates the 125th anniversary of the birth of Juan Gris, celebrated on March 23, 2012. In it, we can appreciate some of the most recognizable characteristics of the cubist language, such as the decomposition of images into two-dimensional planes or the illusion of collage through which the elements are integrated into a coherent whole.
We also find, beyond the references typical of the avant-garde ism, the representation of other features characteristic of Juan Gris's painting that allow us to contrast his vision with that of his colleague Picasso, with the former's painting offering a greater geometric component, as well as repeated motifs related to the world of music. Here you can find more information about the doodle from its creator, Mike Dutton, who explains in the first person the experience of working assuming the cubist vision of reality (In English). On the other hand, if you prefer to delve into the pictorial work of Juan Gris, you can read this post on our blog.
As you can see, today art is no longer relegated to museums, galleries, or inaccessible private collections. We can find it in small doses in any corner, around any bend. That is, only if we know how to observe with the right gaze.
