Cubism

1. one of the most influential visual art styles of the early 20th • century Cubism

2. Cubists rejected such subject as remote and often incomprehensible and insisted instead that art should deal with the real everyday world: natural or man-made and with a common, everyday human experience. Thus, the aim is to celebrate the simple pleasures and satisfactions of the everyday life and the ordinary daily environment of the artists and his audience.

3. Cubism began as an idea and then it became a style, based on Paul Cézanne's three main ingredients :- • geometricity • simultaneity (multiple views) • passage • Cubism tried to describe, in visual terms, the concept of the Fourth Dimension

4. There were two main types of Cubism • Analytical Cubism • artists would study or analyze the subject and break it up into different blocks. • the colors used are monochromatic black, grey and browns • then they would reconstruct the subject, painting the blocks from various viewpoints. • Synthetic Cubism • introduced the idea of adding in other materials in a collage. • artists would use colored paper, newspapers, and other materials to represent the different blocks of the subject. • this stage also introduced brighter colors and a lighter mood to the art.

5. It was stated that during 1908, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso originated the style, known as Cubism, one of the most internationally influential innovations of 20th-century art.

6. Georges Braque1910 • analytic Cubism • embodies the dynamic and energetic qualities of Analytic Cubism • described this kind of fragmentation as "a technique for getting closer to the object Violin and Candlestick

7. Georges Braque 1911 • Analytical cubism • A clarinet lies on a mantelpiece at the centre of this playful work Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece

8. Juan Gris 1912 • Analytic Cubism • was the first cubist work that wasn’t created by the hand of Picasso and Braque • The composition was created exclusively from earth tones, interrupted by the vibrant colors of the palette, such as blue, red, yellow and black Portrait of Picasso

9. Juan Gris 1912 • synthetic cubism • third cubist • the complexity of the work, however, lies in the suggestion that the overlapping and interpenetrating planes may represent to some degree visual memories of different views onto the objects Bottle of Rum and a Newspaper

10. Pablo Picasso 1907 • analytic Cubism • considered to be a major step towards the founding of the cubist movement • the five women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes • his study of native art, such as Iberian and African sculptures, greatly influenced him to take a huge step away from conventional western art • woman in the middle of the painting is clearly inspired by a painting by Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

11. George Braque's paintings of 1908–1913 reflected his new interest in geometry and simultaneous perspective. He conducted an intense study of the effects of light and perspective and the technical means that painters use to represent these effects, seeming to question the most standard of artistic conventions.

12. George Braque 1908 • In his village scenes, for example, Braque frequently reduced an architectural structure to a geometric form approximating a cube, yet rendered its shading so that it looked both flat and three-dimensional by fragmenting the image Houses at l'Estaque

13. Juan Gris 1915 • Synthetic cubism • The objects are lit by electric light which contrasts with the moonlit scene outside the window Still Life with Open Window, Rue Ravignan

14. Pablo Picasso 1921 • Synthetic Cubism • perhaps influenced by the theater sets and costumes he was designing at the time • there is a discontinuity between forms Three Musicians