Cubism and Abstract

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Cubism and Abstract

Brendan Ross

Nabid AhmedGraham Ward

Phillip Absolon: Cassie thinking about Cubism


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Values and Characteristics of Cubism

"Cubists perceive reality through intuitive vision of the mind rather than throughreasoned logic of the senses. They portray conceptual reality with techniques of formthat manifest cubist concepts of time, space, and motion intertwined with fouraesthetic concerns: dissociation of the elements of the object, simultaneity,relationship of the parts to the whole and the whole to its parts, and the integrity of theobject." Jeff Toomer, Cubist Poet

Pablo Picasso (Real) Pablo Picasso (Cubed)

Juan Gris


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The Origins of Cubism

Late 19th

-Early 20th

: European artists such as Pablo Picasso,George Braque, discover and draw from African Tribal, Native

American, and Micronesian Art

Braque meets Picasso through a mutual friend, Guillaume

Apollinaire, Cubist friendship develops


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Paul Cezzane: (1839-1906)

French artist that bridged the gap

between Cubism and Impressionism

Picasso and Braque looked up to him

and followed his theories closely:

All natural forms can be reduced to

spheres, cones and cylinders. One

must begin with these basic, simpleelements, and then one will be able to

make anything that one wants.


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Prominent Cubist Artists

Picasso (1881-1973)George Braque

(1882-1963)Juan Gris(1887-1927)


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Political/Social Messages in Cubism

Picasso:Guernica: Protesting the horrors of the GuernicaBombings in the Spanish Civil War

Nazi Germany: Nazi party censors most of Cubist/Abstractpaintings in fear of having unwanted messages being spread,and so most art was destroyed Ironic because Hitler was ahorrible artist.


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The painting that marked the beginning of the

Cubist mode.

Picasso Les Demoiselles dAvignon


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Guernica Pablo Picasso


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George Braque Violin and Candlestick


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Juan Gris: Synthetic cubist The Guitar"


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Head of a WomanPablo

Picasso

Head of Gricault-

Jacques Lipchitz

Walking Woman-

Alexander Archipenko


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Sculptures

Purpose: To reveal the true structure of objects,

using geometrical shapes and designs.

Originated in Paris, 1909.

Head of a Woman- Picasso, is known

sculpture.

Reflection of Analytical Cubism: strip awayillusionist detail, revealing form using found

objects


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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Fernande Olivier Mandolin and Clarinet


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Pablo Picasso

Born October 25th, 1881

Created more than 20,000 works of art

Considered the greatest artist of the 20th century

One of the original three founders of Cubism

(Georges Braque, Guillaume Apollinaire)

Moved Cubism into the Realist and Surrealiststyle


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La Grue 19.1 Million USD


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Marcel Duchamp

French Dada Artist

Small but very

controversial output, on

Avant- Garde art.

Covered many art styles

Sculpture created new

styles Kinetic Art andReady Made Art


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Changed the use of sculptures

and revolutionized cubist

sculpture.

Now use of everyday objects.

Bicycle Wheel

Kinetic Art


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Jacques Lipchitz French sculptor who was

born in Russia in 1891.

Was the founders of

Cubist Sculptures along

with Picasso.

Moved his sculpting into

a realist style


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Prometheus Strangling the Vulture-Lipchitz


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Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko Russian- American sculptor, born

In Kyviv

Created a style that was based of

concavities/ negative space.

Taught in Paris, Berlin, and New

York, conducted a school in NYC.


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Cubist

House of the

Black Madonna


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Cubist Architecture has its home in Prague, Czech

Republic

Purpose is to embody human spirits hardships andthe triumphs over them.

Grew out of sentiment for a national identity after

World War I and formation of Czechoslovakia The leaders were Pavel Jank, Josef Gor and

Josef Chochol.


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Pavel Jank (1882-1956) Czech modern architect who

incorporated cubism into

buidlings

Studied under Otto Wagner

Father/ theoretician role

Known for building less but

thinking more


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Palace Adria,

Prague


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Josef Gor (1880-1945) One of the three founders of

cubism in architecture

Joined Janak and Chochol in

creating the Prague Art

Workshops

Professor at the Academy of

Fine Arts

Into Rondocubism after WWI


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House in Vyehrad, Czechloslovakia Epitome of Cubist

Architecture


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Frank Gehry: Modern architect who

incorporates cubism into designs.


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AbstracTransverse Line~Kandinsky


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Abstract Art

-Departure from realism

-No basis in reality

-Concerned with the unconscious of themind

-Nothing recognizable

-Came from Cubism

-Geometric abstraction

-Composed of different movements


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Origins of Abstract

- Came from Cubism and Fauvism

- These other art forms later became recognized as forms ofabstract

- Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism all led toAbstract art


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Ab

stract Artists.


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Jackson Pollock - American Artist- Famous for splatter painting

- Struggled with alcoholism- Strongest influence in

American Abstract movement

Number 1, 1950


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Piet Mondrian

Composition 8, 1914

- Studied at Amsterdam Academy ofFine Arts- Looked to cubism for somethingnew- As his art progressed it becamebrighter and more abstract


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Wassily Kandinsky (1886-1944)- Central artist in the

development of 20th centuryabstract art

- Geometric shapes becamemore prevalent in his art

- Created the first purelyabstract arts

- Taught at the Bauhaus

Fugue. 1914


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Abstract:Italian Futurism.

Filippo Marinnetti


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Beginnings

Founder was Filippo Marinetti withFuturist Manifesto1909.

We want no part of it, the past, we the young and

strong futurists

Anything that was new, had a root and tie to futuristictendencies (i.e. painting, clothing, religion, cooking,

writing). Ideas rejected everything old.

Speed and

Sound

Giancomo Balla


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Ties to Cubism

Cubist art was considered part of the futurism movement

because of its ingenuity, use of shapes and designs and

the abstract works that came during the time period.

The Cyclist Natalia

Gonchorova


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Abstract:Russian Futurism.

Vladimir

Mayakovsky


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Beginnings

Russian Futurism was

begun as a literature and

visual arts movement

Coincided with the Russian

Revolution but ended

around 1917.

Cubism heavily used inRussia.

El Lissitzky Futurist

poster


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Feelings ofFuturism

Wanted to overthrow everything that was old In Russia, they even blocked Marinnetti when he came

to see the Russia Futurist movement.

Feelings of not owing the past anything and being solely

for the present.

Russia Futurist

propaganda


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Abstract:Bauhaus (Germany)- Kandinsky taught there

- Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919- Became its own movement- Very influential place for Modern Art

Applications:Cubist/Abstract infused architecture--precursor to modern

architecture, industrial design


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Abstract in the US

- Jackson Pollock

- Period of Censorship in United States- Abstract deemed apolitical and therefore acceptable

- New York School- informal group of artists and poets


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Geometric Abstraction

Mathematics

Intense coloring

Geometric

components: Pure

Cubism

Tesseracts/Mosaics

Composition #10

Piet Mondrian

KazimirMalevich

BlackSquare


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Where can you see Cubism and Abstract

today?!?

Fashion

Home

FurnishingsModern Architecture Design/Technology


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LINKS

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cubismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art#Musichttp://www.artmovements.co.uk/abstractexpressionism.htmcubism in soviet propaganda

http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/propaganda.htmhttp://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/abstract-art/page/2/http://www.arthistoryguide.com/bauhaus.aspx

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