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Read the following quote from 20th century critic, Guillaume Apollinaire:
“Authentic Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not from the reality of vision, but from that of conception. This tendency leads to a poetic kind of painting which stands outside the world of observation; for, even in a simple cubism, the geometrical surfaces of an object must be opened out in order to give a complete representation of it… Everyone must agree that a chair, from whichever side it is viewed, never ceased to have four legs, a seat and back, and that if it is robbed of one of these elements, it is robbed of an important part.”
By pulling 3-4 key ideas from this quote, please create your own definition of cubism.
PAUL CÉZANNE, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-1904. Oil on canvas, 2'3 1/2" x 2'11 1/4"
cylinders, rectangles, & spheres
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907Nonwestern, Africa, Koto Reliquary Figure
“I paint forms as I thinkthem, not as I see them.”
Analytic Cubism:
• subdued hues – monochrome browns• dismissal of pictorial illusionism• using shapes and line (formalism)
• Picasso and Braque
Synthetic Cubism:
• inclusion of collage/ objects• papier colle – stuck paper• “Not only did we try to displace reality;
reality was no longer in the object”
PICASSO, GLASS AND
BOTTLE OF SUZE, 1912
SYNTHETIC CUBISM
COLLAGE!!
Constructed paintings and drawings with objects and shapes