Cubism

1. Cubism C. 1907/1911 - Present

2. Cubism Defined: Elements such as objects and figures are broken into a variety of planes through use of geometry, depicting multiple points of view and the passage of time in the same work.

3. Cubism: Considered one of the most influential art movements of the 20th Century as well as contemporary art, music, literature and architecture.

4. Poetry • Novels—William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying • Music • Film Influenced works in other fields

5. Georges Braque Pablo Picasso These two are credited with starting Cubism

6. Georges Braque1882-1963 Violin and Candlestick 1910

7. Pablo Picasso1881-1973 Seated Nude 1909-1910

8. Georges Braque Still Life With Bandelliras 1911 Pablo Picasso Still Life With Bottle of Rum 1911 Summer of 1911

9. Georges Braque Still Life with Pair of Banderillas

10. Pablo Picasso Still Life With Bottle of Rum 1911

11. Paul Cezanne 1839-1906 —cubists influenced by his style and approach to the passage of time. Still Life, Drapery, Pitcher and Fruit Bowl 1893-94

12. Paul Cezanne Mill at the River 1900-1906 Watercolor

13. Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire 1887

14. Fernand Leger1881-1955 Work influenced by Cezanne 1907 exhibition La Femme en Bleu 1912

15. Henri Matisse 1869-1964—also influenced Cubism Fauves Group Woman With a Hat 1905

16. Cubism influenced by African Art Fang Mask used in search for sorcerers—19th Century

17. Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1907

18. Picasso’s cubist sculpture Head of a Woman 1910

19. Le Corbusier (Charles-ÉdouardJeanneret-Gris)1887-1965Cubism in architecture Heidi Weber Museum 1960

20. “It is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of Cubism. It was a revolution in the visual arts as great as that which took place in the early Renaissance. Its effects on later art, on film, and on architecture are already so numerous that we hardly notice them.” John Berger Cubism