CubismBy: Michelle Friedow, Rachel

Sandoffsky, and Melanie Holsgrove

“When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering

Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.”

Pablo Piccaso

Important Discoveries at the Time

"The view through the door of the railroad car at the automobile windshield,

in combination with speed, has altered the habitual look of things. A modern man, registers a hundred times more sensory

impressions than an eighteenth-century artist."

Fernand Léger

Cubism

Fauvism

Cézanne

Egyptian Art &

Primitivism

BEGINNINGS OF CUBISM

Fauvism Influences

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (1907)

Fauvism Influences

Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (1905-06)

Paul Cézanne

Les Grandes Baianeuses (1906)

Egyptian Art & Primitivism

Egyptian Art & Primitivism

Paul Gauguin The Moon and the Earth (Hina tefatou),

Paul Gauguin, Oviri

Faceting

Different perspectives on one surface.

Different ways of seeing the same subject matter.

Using light and dark tones to capture the effect.

Les Demoiselles D’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907

From 1907 – 1912 Colors very muted, using mostly tan,

brown, gray, cream, and some greens and blues.

Analytical Cubism presented multiple views of an object, using overlapping planes.

ANALYTICAL CUBISM

Girl With A Mandolin – Pablo Picasso – 1910

Accordionist – Pablo Picasso – 1911

Bottles and KnifeJuan Gris

1914

Violin and Candlestick – Georges Braque – 1910

From 1912 – 1921 Takes otherwise ambiguous objects and

combines them to form something recognizable.

Contrasting textures. Non-painted objects such as

newspaper, cloth strips, and tobacco wrappers are glued onto the canvas and integrated with the paint.

SYNTHETIC CUBISM

Still Life with Chair Caning – Pablo Picasso – 1912

Guitar, Sheet Music, And Wine Glass – Pablo Picasso – 1912

Woman With A Guitar – Georges Braque –1913

Fruit Dish And Glass – Georges Braque – 1912

Card Player – Pablo Picasso – 1914

Three Muscians, Pablo Piccaso (1921)

Cubist Sculpture

Woman’s Head – Pablo Picasso – 1909

Reclining Nude with Guitar – Jacques Lipchitz – 1928

Guitar – Pablo Picasso – 1914

Reactions to Cubism

Cubism was not verywidely know at thetime, but the

responsesit got were mostlypositive.

"It is the man who challengesand denies who stirs othermen to think for themselves.That is the chief value of thecubist painting – theycompel us to think forourselves, totake careful inventory of ourstock of stereotypednotions...”

-Jerome Eddy, Art Critic

Almost all abstraction art movements came from Cubism.

Buildings, kitchens, magazines, cinematography, photography all were influenced heavily by the themes Cubism presented.

EFFECTS OF CUBISM

Nude Descending A Staircase – Marcel Duchamp – 1912