Cubism

CUBISM

Justin Oldani Nick Beitz David Bloxsom

BACKGROUND Paris

1907-1914 Pablo Picasso

Spanish Georges Braque

French

CUBISM What is it? Why did Cubism begin? Real people, places and objects Multiple viewpoints Two-dimensionality

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso

CUBISM Influences

CUBISM “When you look at an object your eye scans

it, stopping to register on a certain detail before moving on to the next point of interest and so on. You can also change your viewpoint in relation to the object allowing you to look at it from above, below or from the side. Therefore, the Cubists proposed that your sight of an object is the sum of many different views and your memory of an object is not constructed from one angle, as in perspective, but from many angles selected by your sight and movement. Cubist painting, paradoxically abstract in form, was an attempt at a more realistic way of seeing.”~www.artfactory.com

IDEALS

Reject copying nature Two-dimensionality Multiple & contrasting vantage points

ANALYTICAL CUBISM Until 1912 Analyzed subjects from multiple

viewpoints Geometric framework Limited palette of colors

Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Pablo Picasso

Ma Jolie, Pablo Picasso

Violin and Candlestick, Georges Braque

Portrait of Picasso, Juan Gris

SYNTHETIC CUBISM Direct Colorful and decorative Many Geometric shapes

Along with freehand and rounded

Glass and Bottle of Suze, Pablo Picasso

Still Life with Bowl and Fruit, Pablo Picasso

CUBIST SCULPTURE

Started in 1909 Mainly colors of black, white, and grey Human and animal figures

Cellist, Otto Getfeund

Seated Geometric Figure, Alexander Archipenko

Head, Pablo Picasso

ARTISTS Georges Braque Paul Cezanne Juan Gris Marcell Duchamp Fernand Leger Pablo Picasso

PAUL CEZANNE January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906 Aix-en-Provence, France University of Aix

Bibemus Quarry, Paul Cezanne

GEORGES BRAQUE

May 13, 1882 - August 31, 1963 Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise Studied at School of Beautiful Arts

Artistic paintings Proto-Cubist

Bottle and Fishes, Georges Braque

JUAN GRIS March 23, 1887 - May 11, 1927 Madrid, Spain School of Arts and Manufacturing

Still Life with Violin and Glass, Juan Gris

MARCEL DUCHAMP July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968 Blainville-Crevon, France Lycee Pierre-Corneille

Nude Descending Staircase, Marcel Duchamp

FERNAND LEGER

February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955 Orne, France School of Decorative Arts and Julian

Academy

PABLO PICASSO

October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973 Malaga, Spain Barcelona School of Fine Arts

WHAT SHAPED CUBISM?

Fauvism Expressionism Breaking Paradigms

ART MOVEMENTS THAT CUBISM LED TO Orphism Futurism Vorticism Suprematism

Joy of Life, Robert Delaunay

Supremus No. 58, Malevich, 1916

HOW DOES CUBISM FIT INTO THE FAMILY OF ABSTRACT

ART?

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