CUBISM THEFIRSTFORM OF ABSTRACTART PICASSO AND BRAQUE WITH
CUBISM THEFIRSTFORM OF ABSTRACTART PICASSO AND BRAQUE WITH INFLUENCES FROM CÉZANNE
Cubism is an early-20 th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20 th century.
Characteristics of Cubism • -splintered shapes, flattened space and geometric blocks of color • -quest to find a new concept of painting as an • arrangement of form and color on a 2 -D surface • -multiple angles • -reconstruct objects • -battle between what the eyes see and what the mind knows is suppose to be there
INTRODUCTION TO CUBISM Cubism is a form of abstract art which emphasizes the twodimensionality of the canvas. • Characteristics: • Objects are shown from multiple perspectives at once. • Everything is portrayed with geometric shapes. • It portrayed a “new way of seeing, ” which infused observations and memories into paintings.
Forms of Cubism Analytical Cubism: This was the early form of cubism that lasted until about 1912. It abandoned perspective and the artist analyzed the subject from many different view points and reconstructed it within a geometric frame work. The overall effect was to create an image that evoked a sense of the subject. The art work was unified by the use of a subdued and limited palette of colors. Analytic cubists reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially 3 -D parts with the 2 -D picture plane.
ANALYTICAL CUBISM (Or, that period of cubism where it’s really hard to tell what anything is, and who the artist is. ) Characteristics of Analytical Cubism: • Objects are “analyzed” from many perspectives. • Artist incorporates many (if not all) of these perspectives in the painting itself. • The painting, instead of directly showing the subject, “evokes a sense of the subject. ”
Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs – Georges Braque - 1913
Still Life With a Violin – Georges Braque – 1912
The. Guitar Player – Pablo Picasso – 1910
Portrait of Daniel. Henry Kahnweiler – Pablo Picasso – 1910
Synthetic Cubism: Began around 1912. It no longer concerned with exploring the anatomy of nature but turns to the creation of a new anatomy that is far less dependent upon the principle of perception. Now the painters attention was focused on the construction, not the analysis of the object (creation, not recreation). • Color regained its decorative function instead of being restricted to the naturalistic description. • Compositions were static and centered but they lost their depth and became abstract • The construction requirements brought about the introduction of new textures and new materials.
SYNTHETIC CUBISM (or, thank God, I can actually tell what I’m looking at in this painting!) Characteristics of Synthetic Cubism: • Objects are still drawn from multiple perspectives, BUT… • They are more obvious, • And there are more colorful.
Black Fish – Georges Braque – 1942
Le. Jour – Georges Braque – 1929
Three Musicians – Pablo Picasso – 1921
Still Life With Mandolin and Guitar – Pablo Picasso - 1924
Guitar and Clarinet – Juan Gris – 1920
Soldiers Playing Cards – Fernand Léger – 1917
Homage to Bleriot – Robert Delaunay – 1914
'Mandora', Georges Braque, 1909– 10
Matisse, Still Life After Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s ‘La Desserte', 1915
Fauvism Art • Fauvism /fʊvism/ is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20 th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
Henri Matisse, "Harmony in Red"
Derain: Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906
TASK: Materials • A 3 size Drawing Paper • Textured paper • Acrylic paints • Paintbrushes • Study the philosophy behind Cubism and Fauvism and how they emerged as a response to World War I. Take a photo of Your personal belongings that represent Yourselves and your identity. Compose these objects to create a still life, click a photograph of the still-life. Drawn and paint your still life on your sketch pad, paint half of it in a cubist style and the other half in fauvist style.
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