CUBISM a new vision a new reality Prof
CUBISM: a new vision, a new reality Prof. Anderle Stefano ART LESSON (CLIL)
to start… PEPPA PIG (in english, of course…) www. youtube……………
Why me to explain Cubism? ? ? Let’s go forward one step at a time… “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ” (PICASSO)
Where and When was Cubism born? Paris has always offered great art museums, a tradition of artistic freedom and bohemian people that could live cheaply on the margin of bourgeois society
What was happening in Europe then? (context) The NEW TECHNOLOGY and SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES were radically changing the pace of life and the way society perceived the nature of things (microscope, telescope, first flights by plane). The THEORY OF RELATIVITY - evolved through F. H. Bradley, Whitehead, Einstein, and the new mathematics – suggested that we live in a world of shifting perspectives, where the appearance of objects is in a constant flux depending on the point of view from which it is seen. Freud's studies on PSYCHOANALYSIS and UNCONSCIOUS
How to depict this new dynamic vision of life? For painters the dilemma became representing the flux of time, motion and space in a medium that lent itself to the mere capture of the fleeting moment. CUBISM was born as a response to this predicament.
Who were the first cubists? Picasso Braque (1881 -1973) (1882 -1963) Obviously they were younger than what appears on these photos…
The father of Cubism: Paul Cézanne In the beginning of their artistic partnership, Picasso and Braque agreed about Cézanne’s statement that “everything in nature is based on the sphere, cone, and cylinder” Big bathers, 1899 -1906, Oil on canvas, cm. 210 x 250, Philadelphia, Museum of art
There are different ways to represent an object on a flat surface
Look at the glass (figures a-b-c-d-e) Cubism assumes the vision of the subject from many angles simultaneously (figures f-g). The object is decomposed, than reconstructed and rebuilt in our minds.
Here’s Picasso’s Masterpiece that had broken all of the traditional rules that artists at the time followed, especially the one that defined art as imitation rather than creation “Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. ” (PICASSO)
How long did it take Picasso to complete his masterpiece? Sketch for “les Demoiselles”, 1907? , pencil and pastels on paper, 48 x 64 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum
Who are they? Are they Bathers? Les demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 245 x 235 cm, New York, Museum of Modern Art
Bathers before Picasso INGRES, 1863 BOUQUEREAU, 1889 GAUGUIN, 1892 RENOIR, 1884
Who are they then? Now look at the bottom left…
We see the woman's face and back at the same time. So image is clearer, more complete than we think! THAT’S CUBIST!!! It’s true! Although I’m in profile, you can see both my eyes. I’m CUBIST!!!
Also the relation between figures and background is new: they permeate thoroughly.
The experience of reality was also being altered by the cultural interactions taking place between the East and West, the primitive and the industrialized. Each culture brought with it a new, idiosyncratic way of looking at things, and the interchange occurring between cultures obscured the perception of truth.
A Picasso’s tribute to STILL LIFE
When Picasso’s friends (Braque included) saw “Les Demoiselles” for the first time, they went into a state of shock. Many months after this initial encounter and much reflection, Braque reconsidered his initial reaction and responded with Large Nude (1908)
The young Picasso's rebelliousness cleared the air for what was to come: a freedom to create rather than imitate and to construct a new pictorial language. THE END
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