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Title: CUBISM


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CUBISM
  • Paris 1907 - 1914

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  • Cubism is a style of painting in which artists
    try to show all sides of three dimensional
    objects on a flat canvas.
  • The Cubist artists of the early 20th Century felt
    it was more honest to depict multiple views of
    objects than to restrict viewers to a single
    point of view.

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  • Cubism was an intellectual approach to art rather
    than a descriptive or emotional one. Cubist
    artists thought their way through their
    paintings, trying to show what they knew was
    there, not what they saw or felt. Pablo Picasso,
    the founder of this movement said, We have kept
    our eyes open to our surroundings, but also our
    brains.

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  • Cubism owes a debt to the work of Paul Cezanne,
    who saw the surfaces of objects as geometric
    shapes that could be broken up into planes.
  • When Picasso and Georges Braque (another major
    Cubist painter) met for the first time they spoke
    of their admiration for the work of Cezanne.

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  • A Cubist painting can confuse the viewer, as
    objects do not necessarily sit in space the way
    we expect them to. You can never be sure when one
    shape is ahead of another, because part of it
    might seem to be in front and part of it behind
    surrounding objects.

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  • Cubist painters used drab colours a significant
    contrast with the vibrant, saturated palettes of
    the Impressionists, Fauves, and German
    Expressionists.
  • The Cubist palette was made up of grays and
    browns brighter colours were considered too
    romantic.

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  • Textured surfaces were an important feature of
    Cubist painting, especially in the period after
    1911, when Picasso and Braque began to collage
    newspaper clippings, pieces of wallpaper and
    labels onto their canvases.

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  • Major Cubist Painters
  • Pablo Picasso (Spanish) 1881 - 1973
  • Georges Braque (French) 1882 1963
  • Followers
  • 3. Juan Gris 1887 - 1927
  • 4. Albert Gleize 1881 - 1953

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  • The Cubist movement began in Paris, where Pablo
    Picasso, a Spaniard, settled in 1901.
  • He lived with a number of other artists in a
    building known as the Bateau Lavoir, a ramshackle
    building in the Montmartre district of Paris.
    There was both rivalry and cameraderie among the
    artists and their concentration in one location
    created the conditions for innovative
    breakthroughs.

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  • In 1905,Picasso completed Les Demoiselles
    dAvignon, and showed it to his friend and rival
    artist Georges Braque.

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  • Avignon is a city in southern France, but the Rue
    dAvignon is also the red light district of
    Barcelona, Spain.
  • The demoiselles, (the girls) pictured here are
    prostitutes. This is a brothel scene and it
    originally included a male figure.

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  • These figures are not modelled in any realistic
    way.
  • Picasso has broken with spatial illusion and
    allowed the figures to sit on a 2 dimensional
    plane.
  • Note the repetition of geometric shapes in the
    composition.

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  • The woman on the far right has a face that
    resembles an African mask. Although he denied any
    African influences in his art, Picasso is known
    to have visited museums where African masks were
    displayed.

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Picasso Three Musicians
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  • Picasso has abstracted the three figures and
    their musical instruments, rendering them as
    pattern and geometric shapes on a flat surface.

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  • Picasso Woman
  • Here we see more than one view of the woman
    simultaneously, in both profile and facing views.

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  • Picasso
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
  • This famous portrait depicts Picassos dealer,
    Ambroise Vollard. Vollard took an early interest
    in the work of the Bateau Lavoir artists.

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  • The Guitar Player
  • A viewer can barely make out the forms of a man
    and a guitar in this painting.
  • Note the subdued palette and geometric shapes
    that characterize Cubist art.

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  • Picasso
  • Guitar Player
  • Here is an altogether different guitar player,
    from Picassos blue period, just after he
    arrived, penniless and friendless, in Paris in
    1901. His paintings from this period express his
    depressed state of mind.

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  • Picasso (Blue Period)
  • The Visit of the two sisters

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  • Picasso
  • Boy with a Pipe
  • As Picassos fortunes improved, he moved into his
    rose period, when his palette warmed up and he
    turned to happier subjects.

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  • Picasso (Rose Period)
  • Circus Performers

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  • Picasso
  • Family of Saltimbanques

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  • Picasso lived to a great age (91) and his style
    evolved throughout his life.
  • This painting comes from a period in which he
    painted gigantesses in a sculptural style (1920
    1921)

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Guernica
  • Guernica is Picassos famous anti war picture.
  • It was painted in 1937 to protest the Nazi
    bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica.
  • At the far right, a woman crashes through the
    floor of a burning building. In front of her,
    another woman dashes forward blindly in panic. A
    horse with a spear in its back screams in terror.
    A severed head with staring eyes rests on an
    outstretched arm, its hand reaching for nothing.
    Another hand tightly clutches a broken sword. A
    woman holds a dead child and raises her head
    skyward to scream out her horror at the planes
    overhead (Mittler. Art in Focus. 541).

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  • Picasso uses bold blacks, whites, and grays
    instead of color to give the impression of
    newsprint or newspaper photographs. Adding to
    the look of newsprint is the stippled effect on
    the horse.
  • The paintings powerful images, however, convey
    the full impact of the event far more effectively
    than could the words in a newspaper account, or
    even photographs (Mittler. Art in Focus. 542).

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  • Georges Braque

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  • Georges Braque
  • House at LEstaque
  • The influence of Cezanne is obvious here.

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  • Georges Braque
  • La Roche

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Georges Braque - Le Jour
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Georges Braque Little Violin
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  • Georges Braque
  • The Whole Worlds a stage

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