CUBISM

THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART PICASSO AND BRAQUE WITH INFLUENCES FROM CÉZANNE

INFLUENCES ON CUBISM

• Paul Cézanne changed styles and habits

• Variations of tone and color

• Geometric shapes: cylinder, sphere, cone

• Varied approach while revisiting subjects

• “My one and only master… Cézanne was like the father of us all”. -Pablo Picasso Large Bathers – Paul Cezanne – 1899-

1906

INFLUENCES ON CUBISM

• African art has influenced many art movements

• Motivated artists to create their own interpretations of what they saw

• Themes adapted from African art

• Distorted African masks influenced the earliest cubist paintings.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907

Fang Mask 56 – the Fang tribe

INTRODUCTION TO CUBISM

Cubism is a form of abstract art which emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas.

Characteristics:• Objects are shown

from multiple perspectives at once.

• Everything is portrayed with geometric shapes.

• It portrayed a “new way of seeing,” which infused observations and memories into paintings.

The Guitar Player – Pablo Picasso – 1910

EARLY CUBISM

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907

Viaduct at L'Estaque – Georges Braque – 1908

ANALYTICAL CUBISM(Or, that period of cubism where it’s really hard to tell what anything is, and who the artist is.)

Characteristics of Analytical Cubism:•Objects are “analyzed” from many perspectives.•Artist incorporates many (if not all) of these perspectives in the painting itself.•The painting, instead of directly showing the subject, “evokes a sense of the subject.”

Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs

– Georges Braque -

1913

Still Life With a Violin – Georges Braque –

1912

The Guitar Player –

Pablo Picasso –

1910

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Pablo Picasso –

1910

GUESS THE ARTIST!

GUESS THE ARTIST!

Violin and Jug – Georges Braque – 1910Ma Jolie – Pablo Picasso – 1911

SYNTHETIC CUBISM(or, thank God, I can actually tell what I’m looking at in this painting!)

Characteristics of Synthetic Cubism:•Objects are still drawn from multiple perspectives, BUT…•They are more discernable,•And they are more colorful.

Black Fish – Georges Braque – 1942

Le Jour – Georges Braque – 1929

Three Musicians – Pablo Picasso – 1921

Still Life With Mandolin and Guitar – Pablo Picasso - 1924

OTHER NOTABLES

• Juan Gris is considered the “Third Musketeer” of Cubism

• Fernand Léger painted World War II inspired Cubist paintings, which created social commentary of the time he lived in

• Robert Delaunay spun off of Cubism with “orphism,” which is just cubism with more circles

• Marcel Duchamp didn’t always paint, but when he did, he painted cubism.

Guitar and Clarinet – Juan Gris – 1920

Soldiers Playing Cards – Fernand Léger – 1917

Homage to Bleriot – Robert Delaunay – 1914

Nude Descending a Staircase – Marcel Duchamp – 1912