Cubism The Breaking into the Modern

Artists: Leger) Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque (later Delaunay and

Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. Among the specific elements abandoned by the cubists were the sensual appeal of paint texture and color, subject matter with emotional charge or mood, the play of light on form, movement, atmosphere, and the illusionism that proceeded from scientifically based perspective. To replace these they employed an analytic system in which the three-dimensional subject (usually still life) was fragmented and redefined within a shallow plane or within several interlocking and often transparent planes. Cubism was the first abstract style of modern art. o A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows you many views of a subject at one time. o The Cubists introduced collage into painting.
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While few painters remained faithful to cubism's rigorous tenets, many profited from its discipline. Although the cubist groups were largely dispersed after World War I, their collective break from visual realism had an enriching and decisive influence on the development of 20th-century art. It provided a new stylistic vocabulary and a technical idiom that remain forceful today. Analytic (painterly) 1907 to 1912

limited, largely to black, browns, grays, and off-whites. In addition, forms were rigidly geometric and compositions subtle and intricate 1913 to 1920

Synthetic (sculptural)

paintings were composed of fewer and simpler forms based to a lesser extent on natural objects. Brighter colors were employed to a generally more decorative effect, and many artists continued to use collage in their compositions. Works of Picasso between 1901 and 1905 Works of Picassso between 1905 and 1906

Blue period Rose period

 El Greco known as the

Renaissance/Baroque Greek painter living in Spain,

Greek, Spanish iconic artist

Clovis Savigot

a former circus clown who started an art gallery,

featured Picasso's work, attracted by Picasso's paintings of circus artists. Gertrude Stein African masks culture) Papier colle
Paul Cezanne

American patron, collector, and friend of Picasso collected by Picasso (influential in Iberian

method tried by Picasso for sculptural works Post Impressionist whose later works set the

foundation for cubist theory and style

Quote:

Braque on Demoiselles It makes me feel as if someone were drinking gasoline and spitting fire.

Images Picasso Blue Period (1901-1905) o Death of Casagemas o La Vie o The Bathing

Rose Period (1905-1906) o Family of Saltimbanques o Acrobat and Young Clown Cubist and Synthetic Styles (1907-1940s)
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Gertrude Stein Les Demoiselles DAvignon Portrait of Ambroise Vollard Nude Woman Violin and Table (tacks, strings, painted wood, and charcoal) 1915

1906 1907 1910 1910

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Womans Head bronze Guernica 1937

1909

Braques
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Landscape with Houses Violin and Palette Violin and Candlestick The Portuguese Fruit Dish and Glass (pasted paper and charcoal on paper)

1907 1909-1910 1910 1911 1912