cubism “cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. if you go...
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CUBISM
“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.” ~Jacques Lipchitz
Cubism
A name suggested by Henri Mattisse in 1909 A non-objective approach to painting Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1906 Pre-Cubist (1906) – emphasizing the process of
construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone)
Analytical Cubism (1909-1911) – transpose the three- dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas.
Cubist palette was limited to monochromatic scale colors, dominated by grays and browns.
Synthetic Cubism (1912-1920s) – focused on the construction (new textures and materials) and not the represented objects in the painting – became more abstract and color expanded to many other colors
Then they cut out a simple shape, which may or may not be somehow related to their
chosen subject, out of cardstock.
They traced this shape all over their design in order to break-up or 'fracture' the image.
Below you can see this student used a skull for her main subject, and a bone shape to break it up.
Then, using colored pencils, students chose their colors and practiced creating
gradations from light to dark- simply vary the pressure of the colored pencil.