CUBISM
THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART PICASSO AND BRAQUE WITH INFLUENCES FROM CÉZANNE
INFLUENCES ON CUBISM
• Paul Cézanne changed styles and habits
• Variations of tone and color
• Geometric shapes: cylinder, sphere, cone
• Varied approach while revisiting subjects
• “My one and only master… Cézanne was like the father of us all”. -Pablo Picasso Large Bathers – Paul Cezanne – 1899-
1906
INFLUENCES ON CUBISM
• African art has influenced many art movements
• Motivated artists to create their own interpretations of what they saw
• Themes adapted from African art
• Distorted African masks influenced the earliest cubist paintings.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907
Fang Mask 56 – the Fang tribe
INTRODUCTION TO CUBISM
Cubism is a form of abstract art which emphasizes the two-dimensionality 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.
The Guitar Player – Pablo Picasso – 1910
EARLY CUBISM
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907
Viaduct at L'Estaque – Georges Braque – 1908
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
GUESS THE ARTIST!
GUESS THE ARTIST!
Violin and Jug – Georges Braque – 1910Ma Jolie – Pablo Picasso – 1911
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 discernable,•And they 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
OTHER NOTABLES
• Juan Gris is considered the “Third Musketeer” of Cubism
• Fernand Léger painted World War II inspired Cubist paintings, which created social commentary of the time he lived in
• Robert Delaunay spun off of Cubism with “orphism,” which is just cubism with more circles
• Marcel Duchamp didn’t always paint, but when he did, he painted cubism.
Guitar and Clarinet – Juan Gris – 1920
Soldiers Playing Cards – Fernand Léger – 1917
Homage to Bleriot – Robert Delaunay – 1914
Nude Descending a Staircase – Marcel Duchamp – 1912