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Cubism

Pablo Picasso

Art Movements Prior to CubismNeoclassicismDavid Death of Marat

RealismCourbet The Stone Breakers

Manet Luncheon on the Grass

ImpressionismMonet Impression:Sunrise

Post-ImpressionismVan Gogh The Night Cafe

ModernismMunch The Scream

ExpressionismMatisse Red Room

CezanneMont Sainte-Victoire

Cezanne Basket of Apples

Cezanne Bibemus Quarry

CubismCubism (1908-1914) was a radical new direction for art. It was pioneered by Picasso and Braque and used geometric shapes. Cubism was divided into two main movements, analytic and synthetic cubism.

AnalyticAnalytic cubism was the first phase (Picasso's Girl With Mandolin). Artists deconstructed reality, breaking up figures into shapes and looked at things from multiple perspectives.

A face, for example, would be shown in profile and from a view. Most of these works were monochromatic or near it, depending on values to show forms and separate shapes.

Picasso Wilhelm Uhde

Color schemes were simplified, tending to be nearly monochromatic (hues of tan, brown, gray, cream, green, or blue preferred) in order not to distract the viewer from the artist's primary interest--the structure of form itself.

PicassoAccordionist

The monochromatic color scheme was suited to the presentation of complex, multiple views of the object

BraqueHarbor in Normandy

By creating a geometric structure of overlapping, shifting and tilted cubes, a work is created that seems to project out of the picture plane.BraqueLe Staque

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture planeBraqueMan With Guitar

Rejected the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honored theories of art as the imitation of nature.PicassoThe YoungLadies of Avignon

Gris Open Window

PicassoWeeping Woman

PicassoSelf Portrait

Delaunay City of Paris

PicassoTete DuneFemme Lisant

Forms are generally compact and dense in the centre of the Analytical Cubist painting, growing larger as they diffuse toward the edges of the canvas.

PicassoPortrait of Ambroise Vollard

Art historians consider Cubism to be the most influential form of art from the early 20th century.

DelaunayThe Red Tower

Synthetic Cubism

Synthetic cubism synthesized different things.It had more color and less values, flattening things. There were more shapes than forms. There was collage work in synthetic cubism, and the synthesizing of different textures and materials was a big part of this part of the movement.

This involved the introduction of different textures, surfaces and merged subject matter including newspapers, text, posters and music scores. Synthetic cubism placed an emphasis on multiple layers and shapes, creating compositions that were simpler, brighter and bolder then analytical cubism

Smooth and rough surfaces are contrasted with one another; and frequently non-painted objects such as newspapers are pasted on the canvas in combination with painted areas.

PicassoPipe, Glass,Bottle, Vieux andMarc

GrisStill Life Before anOpen Window

This collage technique emphasizes the differences in texture and poses the question of what is reality and what is illusion in painting BraqueFruit Dish and Cards

MetzingerTable by a Window

Comparison

Cubist SculpturesArchipenkoWoman Combing Her Hair

LipchitzBather

GonzalezWoman Combing HerHair

Futurism Sculpture

BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity in Space

Neo-Cubism

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