cubism

Other artworks during the cubism era:

- Au Bon Marche, 1913 -Three Musicians, 1921 -Still Life with Mandolin and Guitar, 1924

the cubist vision

-A typical cubist painting depicts real people, places or objects, but not from a fixed viewpoint. -instead hello show you many parts of the subject at one time, Viewed from different angles, and reconstructed into a composition of planes, forms and colors.

Cubist Artworks

-Head of a woman by Dan Mask -Violin and Jug- Braque -Still Life with Chair Caning- Picasso -Girl With Mandolin, 1910 -Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, 1910 -Portrait of Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler, 1910

cubism

-The cubist challenged conventional forms of the presentation such as perspective in the rules is the renaissance there a must to develop a new way of seeing which affected the modern age.

cubism

-a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by pablo picasso and georges braque. it was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalize the tired traditions of western art which they believed had run their course.

early cubism

-artists needed a more radical approach - a 'new way of seeing' that expanded the possibilities of art in the same way that technology was extending the boundaries of communication and travel. - this new way of seeing was called cubism- the first abstract style of modern art. picasso and braque developed their ideas on cubism around 1907 in paris and their starting point was a common interest in Paul Cezanne's later paintings.

phases of cubism

-cubism has two distinct phases. The early phase which lasted until about 1912 was also called analytical cubism. here, the artist analyze the subject from many different viewpoints (simultaniety) and reconstructed it within a geometric framework, the overall effect of which was to create an image that evoke a sense of the subject. These fragmented images were unified by the use of the subdued and limited palette of colours.

the cubist vision

-cubist painting -paradoxically abstract in form , was an attempt at them more realistic way of seeing

Cubist inspirations

-however, they were not interested in the true religions or social symbolism of these cultural objects but valued them superficially for their expressive style.

Synthetic Cubism

-influenced by the introduction of bold and simple collage shapes, synthetic you busy moved away from the unified monochrome surfaces of analytic cubism to a more direct, colorful and creative style. -Although synthetic cubism images appear more abstract and their use of simplified form, the other elements of the composition or applied quite traditionally. Interchanging lines, colors, patterns and textures, that switch from geometric to freehand, dark to light, positive to negative and plane to patterned, advance and recede in rhythms across the picture plain.

Synthetic Cubism

-influenced by what he saw around him, picasso pasted various real life materials not normally associated with each other such as bits of paper onto a flat surface to create an arrangement. he usually added drawn or painted marks or images.

Analytical Cubism

-is one of the two major branches of the artistic movement of cubism and was developed between 1908 and 1812. In contrast to synthetic cubism, analytic cubists "analyze" natural forms and reduce the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane. -Color was almost nonexistent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included gray, blue, and ochre. -instead of an emphasis on color, Analytic your best focused on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world. -during this movement, the works produced by Picasso and braque shared stylistic similarities.

Houses Near l'Estaque by Georges Braque, 1908

-the very name cubism came from this painting. when the critic Vauxcelles saw this painting, he said "the houses look like a bunch of little cubes."

the cubist vision

-they wanted to introduce the idea of relativity. -how the artist perceived and selected elements from the subject, fusing both their observations and memories into the one concentrated image. to do this, the cubists examine the way that we see.

phases of cubism

-to revitalize the style and pull it back from total abstraction, picasso began to glue printed images from the real world onto the surface of his still life works. his painting 'still life with chair caning', was the first example of this 'collage' technique and it opened the door for himself and other artists to the second phase of the cubist style: synthetic cubism.

the cubist vision

-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. -The cubist tried to show different sides of an object or person on one plane. This desire to show "all sides at once" or multiple views became known as "simultaniety".

the cubist vision

The limitations of perspective were also seen as an obstacle to progress by the cubists. The fact that picture drawn in perspective could only work from one viewpoint restricted their options. As the image was John from a fixed position, the result was frozen, like a snapshot- but the cubists wanted to make pictures that reach beyond the rigid geometry of perspective.