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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