Cubism

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Cubism
Breaking the Rules
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Ancient Egyptians showed parts of the human
figure from different points of view.
The face is shown from the side, and
shoulders and eyes are shown from the front.
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Greek and Roman artists showed the human figure
more realistically.
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Medieval Christian artists painted flat figures

• without concern for anatomy
• without concern for scale

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Renaissance artists painted the figure
realistically.

• Revived realism of
• Greek and Roman artists
• Used shadows to
• show roundness
• Developed perspective to show depth of space

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Renaissance rules for realism lasted for
500 years.
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Photography

• Developed in the mid-1800s
• Showed images more realistically than painting

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With photography artists could capture
realistic images. Why paint realistically?
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With paint some artists used color and line to
express emotion.
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With paint other artists used color, line,
shape and texture to create interesting
designs.
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Some artists saw geometric forms when they looked
at the world.
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Artists in the early 20th century saw the first
films, saw exhibitions of African art,
experienced flying, and were interested in
Freuds new psychology.
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The world was changing, so with their art the
Cubists dared to break the rules of Renaissance
art.
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Pablo Picasso painted faces that looked like
African masks in 1907. This was the beginning of
Cubism.
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Picasso also painted so that the viewer sees a
figure from different points of view all in one
painting.
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Cubist artists fractured and flattened forms.
We call this analytical cubism.
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Fernand Leger was a Cubist artist who was
interested in machine parts.
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With his friend Georges Braque, Picasso made
collagesfrom scraps of newspapers, wallpaper,
and sheet music.
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In collages, they put together shapes of
various papers to look like objects such as a
guitar.
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Next the Cubists began to paint the shapes to
look like a collage rather than pasting shapes
down. This is called Synthetic Cubism.
Juan Gris was a Synthetic Cubist.
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You are a 21st century artist.
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What technology, events, and ideas affect you?
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Will you be the cubist of this century?
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CreditsSlide 2 Mai and His
Wife Urel, Tomb of Ramose, Thebes, 1375
B.C.Slide 3 Imperial Procession,portion of
frieze of the Ara Pacis, 440 B.C.Slide 4 Madonna
Enthroned,Cimabue, 1280-90Slide 5 Mona
Lisa,Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-5Slide 7 Greta
Garbo,Edward Steichen, 1928Slide 9 The Starry
Night,Vincent Van Gogh, 1889Slide 10 Woman of
the Mango,Paul Gauguin, 1892Slide 11 Mont
Sainte-Victoire,Paul Cezanne, 1902 Slide 13 Nude
Descending a Staircase II, Marcel Duchamp
1912 Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso, 1921
Landscape at LEstaque, Georges Braque
1906 Pitcher and Violin, Georges Braque,
1909-1910 Head of a Man_Self-Portrait, Juan
Gris, 1916Slide 14 Details from Les Demoiselles
dAvignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907Slide 15 Girl
Before a Mirror, Pablo Picasso, 1932Slide 16
Pitcher and Violin, Georges Braque,
1909-1910Slide 17 Soldier with a Pipe,Fernand
Leger, 1916 Man with a Pipe, Fernand Leger,
1920Slide 18 Bottle of Suze,Pablo Picasso,
1912Slide 19 Guitar, Music, and Wine Glass,
Pablo Picasso, 1912Slide 20 Guitar on a
Table,Juan Gris, 1915