Post on 13-Jan-2016
Cubism• Began in 1907 by Picasso and Georges Braque
• Dedicated “to the simplification of painting”
• Painting that began the cubist movement
• Influenced by African masks
• As he painted, the relationship of shapes and colors became more important than the figures
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,The Maids of Avignon, 1907
Mt. St. Victoire
• Used Paul Cezanne’s ideas that all shapes in nature are based on the sphere, cone and cylinder
Picasso and Braque carried the idea further to paint three
dimensional objects from many different angles at one time
They believed that there
“was no one fixed view of nature”
Woman Seated
Friendship
Analytical Cubism• Big, flat shapes broken down even further
to small shards in monochromatic colors– Features broken apart and reassembled– Shattering pattern of geometric shapes
• No interest in perspective
• Uses neutral colors
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler,
1910
Girl with a Mandolin
Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde,
1910
Aficionado
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
Guitar Player, 1910
Accordionist, 1911
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A
Staircase, No. 2, 1912
• One critic called it, “An explosion in a shingle factory”
• A series of movements stopped in successive stages of action–Like stop-action or
strobe light photography
• Blue 6B pencil is for scribbling on the back of your image to transfer
• Use a regular pencil or a colored pencil to trace the image onto your final paper
• You can use a regular pencil to fracture your image
• Use the gray Ebony pencil for creating value