Cubism• Began in 1907 by Picasso and Georges Braque

• Dedicated “to the simplification of painting”

• Painting that began the cubist movement

• Influenced by African masks

• As he painted, the relationship of shapes and colors became more important than the figures

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,The Maids of Avignon, 1907

Mt. St. Victoire

• Used Paul Cezanne’s ideas that all shapes in nature are based on the sphere, cone and cylinder

Picasso and Braque carried the idea further to paint three

dimensional objects from many different angles at one time

They believed that there

“was no one fixed view of nature”

Woman Seated

Friendship

Analytical Cubism• Big, flat shapes broken down even further

to small shards in monochromatic colors– Features broken apart and reassembled– Shattering pattern of geometric shapes

• No interest in perspective

• Uses neutral colors

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler,

1910

Girl with a Mandolin

Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde,

1910

Aficionado

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Guitar Player, 1910

Accordionist, 1911

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A

Staircase, No. 2, 1912

• One critic called it, “An explosion in a shingle factory”

• A series of movements stopped in successive stages of action–Like stop-action or

strobe light photography

• Blue 6B pencil is for scribbling on the back of your image to transfer

• Use a regular pencil or a colored pencil to trace the image onto your final paper

• You can use a regular pencil to fracture your image

• Use the gray Ebony pencil for creating value