Cubism

By: Emma Babtan, Emily Pawczuk, and Charlene

Dinogan

Characteristics

Geometric Shapes

Simultaneity

Passage

Restricted Color

Almost abstract

Movement Influences

Symbolism

◦ Rejected “real”world appearances

Post-Impressionism

◦ Allowed to be emotionally guided

Influences

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

◦ Main influence on cubist artists

◦ “Nature should be treated as cylinders,

spheres, and cones.”

◦ Made rigid lines and figures to add structure

to paintings

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

Gallery Cubists

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Juan Gris

Salon Cubists

Jean Metzinger

Albert Gleizes

Robert Delaunay

Fernand Leger

Tendency to write and theorize

Beginnings

Picasso and Braque

Paintings, sculptures, and poems

Popular from start

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon-Picasso

L’Estaque Series-Braque

Analytic Cubism 1910-1912

Picasso and Braque

Less color

Synthetic Cubism 1912-1914

More collage like

More color

Larger

Pablo Picasso

About Pablo

Full Name: Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

Birth Name: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco

de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los

Remedios Crispiniano de la Santisima

Trinidad. (17 words)

Born in Malaga, Spain October 25, 1881

Died in Mougins, France April 8, 1973

2 wives: Olga Khokhlova and Jacqueline

Roque.

History- Before 1901

Pablo’s father was also a painter. Painted

natural objects like birds.

At age 7 Picasso started getting

professional art training from his father.

Went to several art school because he

moved and he didn’t like taking directions.

Moved to Paris

Blue Period- 1901-1904 Only used shades of blue and blue-green

Painted blue because of his depression

(the suicide of his friend)- added

prostitutes, beggars/poor people, and

drunks, blinds and social outsiders.

The Frugal Repast (1904)

◦ A blind man and woman

that can see, sitting at a table

that is bare.

Rose Period- 1904-1906

Uses the colors orange and pink

a possible reason he changed from blue

to pink is his happy relationship with

Fernande Olivier.

Used a lot of Harlequins, circus

performers, and clowns.

Started to make abstract art.

Seated Female Nude (1905)

◦ Figure is recognizable but not

an actual person.

African-Influenced Period- 1907-

1909 Strongly influenced by African sculptures.

Period was also called the Negro Period

or Black Period.

The French Empire was taking over parts

of Africa so a lot of African art in France.

Started to collect African art while making

the Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Cubism Period- 1909-1912

Cubism started with Picasso and Georges

Braque.

Used different shapes ( cylinder, squares,

spheres) and colors like grey, blue, and

ocher.

Ma Jolie (1911)

Classicism and Surrealism Period-

1918-1945 Art work started to look like objects.

During the uprising of World War 1.

Classicist painting would be The Lovers.

Surrealist painting would be Woman with

Flower.

Later Works- After 1945

Created a Dove symbolizing peace during

World War 2. Won the International Stalin

Peace Prize twice.

Started to draw a Series of paintings

called Verve Suit. It contained 180 pictures

and had clowns, circus performers, cupid

figures and many more. The works

became more expressive and colorful.

Young Acrobat on a

Ball- 1905

Beginning of the Rose Period

Man with a Pipe-

1915

Transition from Cubism to Surrealism

Guernica- 1937

Surrealism

The Dream- 1932

Surrealism

Les Demoiselles

d’Avignon- 1907

African Period

Georges Braque

About Georges

Full Name: Georges Braque

Born in Val-d’Oise Argenteuil.

Born on May 13, 1882

Died on August 31, 1963 in Paris.

Father was also a painter.

Early Life

Started painting with his father

landscapes.

Took light and broke it up. Illuminated

each plane differently

Cubism

Braque took the picture and made it

geometric figures but still added shading

so it looks 3-D and flat. He also

interested in making Cezanne’s idea of

multiple perspectives.

Created a collage and invented the Papier

Colle technique.

Road near

L’Estaque- 1908

Cubism

Violin and

Candlestick- 1910

Man with a Guitar-

1911

Woman with a

Guitar- 1913

Influenced

Abstract

Conceptual

Pop

Ready-mades

FERNAND LÉGER

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)

Born in Argentan, France

Died in Gif-sur-Yvette, France

1909 joined the Cubists

Colors and shapes

“Tubism”

The Card Players- 1917

The City-1919

The Tugboat- 1920

JUAN GRIS

Juan Gris (1887-1927)

Born in Madrid

Died in Paris

First a Magazine Illustrator

Inspired by Picasso and Braque

Abstract Shapes

Portrait of Picasso- 1912

Landscape at Céret- 1913

Still Life (Fantomas)- 1915