Cossitt Art Appreciation CUBISM Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500
Cossitt Art Appreciation CUBISM
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 1700 1800 • Renaissance - Michelangelo • Baroque & Rococo Rembrandt • Romanticism - Delacroix • Modernism - Picasso 1900 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 Renaissance 1700 1800 • Renaissance - Michelangelo • Baroque & Rococo Rembrandt • Romanticism - Delacroix • Modernism - Picasso Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel, 1533 -41 1900 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 1700 Baroque & Rococo 1800 • Renaissance - Michelangelo • Baroque & Rococo Rembrandt • Romanticism - Delacroix • Modernism - Picasso Anatomical Lecture, 1632 1900 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 1700 1800 Romanticism • Renaissance - Michelangelo • Baroque & Rococo Rembrandt • Romanticism - Delacroix • Modernism - Picasso Liberty Leading the People, 1830 1900 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 1700 1800 • Renaissance - Michelangelo • Baroque & Rococo Rembrandt • Romanticism - Delacroix • Modernism - Picasso Old Guitarist, 1903 1900 2000 Modernism
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 Modernism What makes Modernism unique? • Subject: Common vs. Noble • Control: Individual vs. Institutional • Manner: Interpretation vs. Duplication
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 Cubism 1950 1975 2000 1907 – 1914 • Cubism is a part of Modernism • Cubism is at the end of Impressionism and the beginning of Abstract • Cubism follows Fauvism: Matisse, Vlaminck • Cubist painters: Braque, Picasso, Gris
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 Cubism 1950 1975 1907 – 1914 Major technological advancements: • Still photography, 1826 • Moving pictures, 1889 • Wireless radio, 1901 • Air travel, 1903 • Assembly line production (Model T), 1908 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 Cubism 1950 1975 2000 1907 – 1914 The issue under exploration by the artist is always: How do we represent the 3 dimensional world in 2 dimensions?
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 Cubism What makes Cubism unique? 1. Take a house 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 Cubism What makes Cubism unique? 1. Take a house 2. Change it to forms 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 Cubism What makes Cubism unique? 1. Take a house 2. Change it to forms 3. Make the forms planes
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 Cubism What makes Cubism unique? 1. Take a house 2. Change it to forms 3. Make the forms planes 4. Rearrange
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 Cubism What makes Cubism unique? • Space and volume are represented by planes and facets • Forms are the underlying structure of nature • Interpretation of the subject is more memorable than the subject itself
Cossitt Art Appreciation Cubism 1875 1900 1925 1950 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 How do we know Picasso? • Toy Story Hey Ham! Look I’m Picasso! Disney’s Toy Story, 1995 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation Cubism 1875 1900 1925 1950 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 How do we know Picasso? • Daley Plaza Head of a Woman, 1967 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation Cubism 1875 1900 1925 1950 Georges Braques 1882 - 1963 How do we know Braques? • Not the candy! 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 1950 Cubism Picasso – Ma Jolie, 1912 Braque The Portuguese, 1911 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 3 Musicians, 1921 Picasso 1950 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 Still Life on Table, 1928 Braque (Round Table, 1929) 1925 1950 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 Guernica, 1937 Picasso 1925 1950 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 1925 Dora Maar, 1937 Picasso 1950 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation 1875 1900 Fruit Basket circa 1942 Picasso 1925 1950 1975 2000
Cossitt Art Appreciation Now… CUBISM JEOPARDY End
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