CubismCubism
Pablo Picasso
Art Movements Prior to Cubism
• Neoclassicism
• David
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
Cezanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Cezanne Basket of Apples
Cezanne Bibemus Quarry
Cubism
• Cubism (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.
Analytic
• Analytic 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 ¾ 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.
• Picasso
Accordionist
• The monochromatic color scheme was suited to the presentation of complex, multiple views of the object
• Braque
Harbor 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 plane
• Braque
Man 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
• Picasso
Weeping Woman
• Picasso
Self Portrait
Delaunay City of Paris
• Picasso
Tete D’une
Femme 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.
• Picasso
Portrait of Ambroise
Vollard
• Art historians consider Cubism to be the most influential form of art from the early 20th century.
• Delaunay
The 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
• Gris
Still Life Before an
Open 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
• Metzinger
Table by a Window
Comparison
Cubist Sculptures
• Archipenko
Woman Combing
Her Hair
• Lipchitz
Bather
• GonzalezWoman Combing Her
Hair
• Futurism Sculpture
• Boccioni
Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space
Neo-Cubism
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