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Picasso and Braque

Synthetic Cubism1912 – 1920s

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To synthesize means to integrate two or more pre-existing elements which results in a new creation.

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Purpose: To Depict a Vision of Modern Urban Life

• by bringing together familiar scraps and unfamiliar forms in order to give shape to a particular sense of urban life on the eve of WWI

• by exploring the individual experiences associated with public spaces and urban recreation

• by using the language of publicity and commerce in an ambiguous manner to suggest a multiplicity of contradictory meanings, especially through puns

• by capturing the new sense of simultaneity of diverse experiences-the fusion of objects, people, machines, noises, light, smells, etc.

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Pablo Picasso before TheAficionado (summer-autumn1912).

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Pablo Picasso. Man with a Violin (spring 1912). Oil on canvas.

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Paris street, 1906.

Place Saint-André-des-Arts,Paris (1903-04).

The photographer Eugène Atgetcaptures the excitement and apparent randomness of the information environment of themodern city.

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Eugène Atget. Paris Street (1925).

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Posted wall, Dijon, 1901

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Morris columns, Paris (1910).

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Newstand, Paris, before 1914

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Pablo Picasso. Violin,Wineglasses, Pipe, and Anchor (May 1912). Oil on canvas.

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Representation of Representation

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Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning (May 1912). Collage of oil, oilcloth, and pasted paper on canvas.

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Collage

Noun from the French verb coller: to glue

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Characteristics

• A new relationship is enacted between “low” culture (mass culture) and “high” culture (professional art).

• This relationship is felt to be inappropriate, jarring, or wrong—yet interestingly so.

• The end result is irreverence, paradox, and perplexity.

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Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning (May 1912). Collage of oil, oilcloth, and pasted paper on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. The Scallop Shell “Notre Avenir est dans l’air” (May 1912). Oil on canvas.

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Cover of Nôtre Avenir est dans l’air, a brochure imploringFrance to improve its aviation. Braque and Picasso wereusing the slogan ironically, as to imply that France’s future was “in the air”.

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Georges Braque. The Clarinet(spring-late summer 1912). Oil on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. The Poet (summer 1912). Oil on canvas.

Pablo Picasso. The Poet (August 1911). Oil on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. The Aficionado(summer 1912). Oil on canvas.

This fan sits in front of a Spanish guitar and clutches abanderilla. His refined tastesare presented through his stiffcollar, top hat, and the newspaperLe Torero, as well as by the bottle of manzanilla sherry to hisleft.

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Pablo Picasso. Maquettefor Guitar (October 1912).Construction of cardboard,string, and wire (restored).

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar and Sheet Music (October-November 1912). Pasted paper, pastel, and charcoal.

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar, SheetMusic, and Glass (afterNovember 18, 1912). Pastedpaper, gouache, and charcoal.

Le Journal, November 18, 1912, p. 1

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar, SheetMusic, and Glass (afterNovember 18, 1912). Pastedpaper, gouache, and charcoal.

This collage evokes a café, with its cheap wallpaper and humble guitar, where people would go to listen to music, read newspapers, and discuss the news of the day.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass andBottle of Suze (afterNovember 18, 1912).Pasted paper, gouache, and charcoal.

The subject evoked in the collageis the debating of political issueswith friends in a public place.

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Pablo Picasso. Guitars(spring 1913). Ink.

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar(December 3, 1912).Paper construction.

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar (winter1912-13). Construction of sheetmetal, string, and wire.

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Pablo Picasso. Bowl withFruit, Violin, and Wineglass(after December 2, 1912; completed after January 21,1913). Pasted paper, water-color, chalk, oil, and charcoalon cardboard.

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Pablo Picasso. Gas Jet andGuitar (winter 1912-13).Gouache and charcoal.

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Georges Braque. Pedestal Table (early 1913). Oil and charcoal on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. “Au Bon Marché” (January 25-26, 1913). Oil andpasted paper on cardboard.

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This is a parody of the female’s dual role as a consumer and as “goods for sale”. A pasted lid from the lingerie department of the store Au Bon Marché combines with decorative wallpaper, glass on the right, a decanter on the left, and an ad from the department store Samaritaine. Picasso cuts the ad to focus on a modern woman, with her modern hair cut and her gesture of vanity. A number of elements cut off from their context in the newspaper are combined to suggest her availability: the price “2.85” and the words above “Method of Payment”, “Massage” and “Trou Ici”— meaning “hole here”.

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Construction mountedin Picasso’s Studio at 5 bis,rue Scheolcher, early 1913,including cardboardmaquette for Guitar. Photographed by the artist. Construction no longer extant.

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Pablo Picasso. Man with a Guitar(spring 1913). Ripolin (shiny enamel house paint) on canvas.

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Georges Braque. Violin andGlass (spring 1913). Oil, charcoal, and pencil on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Guitar (after March 31, 1913). Pasted paper, charcoal,ink, and chalk.

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Pablo Picasso. Bar Table with Guitar (spring 1913). Chalk,and pasted and pinned paper.

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Pablo Picasso. Head of a Man With a Moustache (after May 6, 1913). Charcoal and ink on newspaper.

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Pablo Picasso. Head (May-June 1913). Pasted paper,charcoal, and pencil on cardboard.

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Pablo Picasso. Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar,and Newspaper (spring 1913). Pasted paper and ink.

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Georges Braque. Clarinet (summer 1913). Pastedpaper, oil, charcoal, chalk, and pencil on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Mandolinand Clarinet (autumn 1913).Construction of paintedwood with pencil marks.

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Georges Braque. Woman witha Guitar (autumn 1913). Oiland charcoal on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Card Player (winter 1913-14). Ripolin paint on canvas.

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Georges Braque. Violin and Pipe “Le Quotidien” (after December 20, 1913). Chalk, charcoal, and pasted paper.

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Georges Braque. Glass and Bottle (winter1913-14). Charcoal and pasted paper.

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Georges Braque. Bottle of Eau-de-Vie (early1914). Oil on canvas.

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Georges Braque. Glass, Bottle,and Newspaper (after January15, 1914). Pasted paper.

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Pablo Picasso. Still Life (early 1914). Constructionof painted wood with upholstery fringe.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass and Dice(early 1914). Construction of painted wood.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass, Newspaper, and Dice(spring 1914). Construction of paintedwood and tin.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass, Dice and Newspaper(spring 1914). Construction of painted wood and tin.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass(spring 1914). Construction ofpainted tin.

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Pablo Picasso. Bottle ofBass, Glass, and Newspaper(spring 1914). Constructionof painted tin.

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Pablo Picasso. Glass of Absinth (spring 1914).Painted bronze withsand and perforated absinth spoon.

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Pablo Picasso. Smoker(spring 1914). Oil and pastedpaper on canvas.

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Georges Braque. Man witha Guitar (spring 1914). Oiland sand on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Man with a Mask,Playing a Guitar (summer 1914).Pencil.

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Pablo Picasso. Bearded Man Playing a Guitar (summer 1914).Pencil and gouache.

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Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Cards, Glasses,and a Bottle of Rum “Vive la France” (summer1914). Ripolin paint and sand on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Green Still Life (summer 1914). Ripolin paint on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Portrait of a Girl (summer 1914). Ripolin paint on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Man with a Pipe (1915). Ripolin painton canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Harlequin (fall-winter 1915). Ripolin paint on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Three Musicians (1921). Oil on canvas.

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Pablo Picasso. Three Musicians (1921). Oil on canvas.