Cubism

CUBISMBy: Tracy Shi

DEFINITION OF CUBISM

A style and movement in art, a new type of image was created using geometric shapes, dark and light shades, and forceful lines, to create a new type of image.

A non-objective approach to painting

HISTORY OF CUBISM The name was suggested by Henri Matisse

in 1909 Developed originally in France by Pablo

Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906.

HISTORY OF CUBISM “Pre-Cubist" period (to 1906)

Between 1909 and 1911, the analysis of human forms and still lifes led to the creation of a new stylistic system---to transpose the three-dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas.

Woman Playing the Mandolin (1909)

By Pablo Picasso

HISTORY OF CUBISM CONTINUED… English art historian Douglas Cooper

describes three phases of Cubism:

"Early Cubism", (from 1906 to 1908)

"High Cubism", (from 1909 to 1914)

"Late Cubism" (from 1914 to 1921)

Georges Braque

Woman with a guitar

painted in 1913

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Factory, (oil on canvas, 1909)

Juan Gris (1887-1927)

Violin and Glass

(oil on canvas, 1915)

APPLICATION OF CUBISM

UFA- Kristallpalast cinema , in Germany. A recent design with its tall cube of glass, kind of modern application of Cubism.

APPLICATION OF CUBISM

The building has got some typical Cubist elements. It seems to be fragmented, disintegrated and reformed back in its structure.

The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester .

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