Synthetic Cubism Paper Landscape Sculptures

Synthetic Cubism

• Emphasis on collage– Usually large pieces of neutral, colored, or printed

paper collaged to look like a specific object– These were called “papiers collés” (collages)– Even included fragments and signs from actual

objects (newspaper, playing cards, advertisements)

– Synthetic Cubism inspired Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden (Harlem Renaissance)

Assignment

• Although landscapes were rare in Cubism, they were the subject of paintings every now and then.

• Design a landscape of your choosing and reduce it to the simplest geometric shapes.

• You will use shallow depth to create a series of backgrounds, middle grounds, and foregrounds that illustrate a scene.

• Cubism was all about having shallow depth or none at all, so the background-middle ground-foreground won’t be too far away from each other.

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Assignment Continued

• The best way to go about this project is to design your landscape entirely in your sketchbook, using full color, to begin.

• Then, you can pick certain areas and colors to separate from each other to create shallow depth.

My Example: Background

My Example: Middle Ground Prep.

My Example: Foreground Prep.

My Example: Finished, Background, Middle Ground, Foreground Put Together

My Example, Alternate View to See Shallow Depth