Three Musicians
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Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
Observed surface forms (3)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Les Trois Musiciens | 0 | 1 |
| Three Musicians (MoMA version) | 0 | 1 |
| Three Musicians (Philadelphia version) | 0 | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cubist painting
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painting → |
| artHistoricalSignificance | key example of Synthetic Cubism → |
| collection |
Museum of Modern Art
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surface form:
Museum of Modern Art collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art collection → |
| colorScheme | warm and cool contrasts → |
| countryOfOrigin | France → |
| creator | Pablo Picasso → |
| creatorBirthName |
Pablo Picasso
→
surface form:
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
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| creatorNationality | Spanish → |
| depictionType | figurative abstraction → |
| depicts |
Pierrot
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figures playing musical instruments → harlequin → monk → three musicians → |
| famousFor | being one of Picasso's best-known Cubist works → |
| genre | synthetic Cubism → |
| hasSubject |
costumed figures
→
musical instruments → |
| hasVersion |
Three Musicians
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Three Musicians (MoMA version)
Three Musicians self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Three Musicians (Philadelphia version)
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| inception | 1921 → |
| influenced | later abstract art → |
| influencedBy |
Cubism
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surface form:
Analytic Cubism
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| languageOfTitle | English → |
| location |
Museum of Modern Art
→
Philadelphia Museum of Art → |
| mainSubject | musicians → |
| materialUsed | oil paint → |
| movement | Cubism → |
| museumCity |
New York City
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Philadelphia → |
| notableFor |
bold, contrasting colors
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complex interlocking shapes → flat, collage-like appearance → |
| originalTitle |
Three Musicians
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Les Trois Musiciens
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| originalTitleLanguage | French → |
| paintingAlignment | landscape format → |
| partOf | 20th-century modern art → |
| periodInArtistCareer | Synthetic Cubism period → |
| style |
abstract
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geometric forms → |
| support | canvas → |
| useOfColor | bright colors → |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Three Musicians (MoMA version)
this entity surface form:
Three Musicians (Philadelphia version)
this entity surface form:
Les Trois Musiciens