Cubism

one of the most influential visual art styles of the early 20th

century

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 blackPortrait of Picasso

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 objectsBottle of Rum and a Newspaper

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

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.

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

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

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