CUBISM

PRESENTED BY
MAHINDER KUMAR SHARMA
MANISH PARMAR
INTRODUCTION
 TO STUDY AN ANALYSIS CUBIST
PAINTINGS AND FIND THEIR REFLECTION
IN BUILDINGS OF LE CORBUSIER.
 CUBISM RESOLVED THE PROBLEM OF ITS
EPOCH THEREBY ESTABLISHED A TRUE
REALETION BETWEEN MAN AND
ARCHITECTURE.
 MEANING OF CUBISM
 THE BIZARRE NAME
“CUBISM” ORIGINATED
WITH BRAQUE AND PICASSO
LANDSCAPES WHICH DID
NOT SHOW TOO MUCH
DEVIATION FROM NATURE,
EXCEPT WINDOWS AND
DOORS WERE LEFT OUT OF
THE BUILDING
Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913
MEANING OF CUBISM
$ CUBISM IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
MODERN ART MOVEMENT.
$ IT BECAME POPULAR SO QUICKLY THAT
BY 1910TH CRITICS WERE REFERRING TO
A “CUBIST SCHOOL” OF A ARTISTS
INFLUENCED BY BRAQUE AND PICASSO
CUBIST ARTISTS WOULD SHY AWAY
FROM DETAIL AND CONCENTRATE
MAINLY ON THE FORM OR SHAPE OF AN
OBJECT
MEANING OF CUBISM
 CUBIST PAINTERS WERE NOT BOUND
TO COPYING FORM, TEXTURE,
COLOUR AND SPACE.
 CUBISM REACTED IN A DIFFERENT
WAY FROM EXPRESSIONISM.
HISTORY OF CUBISM
 CUBISM WAS APPEARED IN 1907TH WITH THE
PAINTINGS ‘LES DEMOISCLLES D’ AVIGNION BY
PABLO PICASSO.
 IT WAS IN THE 1910s AND 20s THAT SEVERAL
ARTISTS EMBRACED THE PRINCIPLE OF CUBISM.
 AFTER THE INTERRUPTION BY 1ST WORLD
WAR,BUT AMONG THE MOVEMENTS DIRECTLY
INFLUENCED BY IT WERE
ORPHISM,PRECISIONISM,FUTURISM,
PURISM,CONSTRUCTIVISN,AND TO SOME DEGREE
EXPRESSIONISM.
CUBISM WITH RESPECT TO
VISION IN MOTION
 AS WITH THE
PAINTINGS OF THE Ambroise Voilard 1910

PERIOD IT IS A
CRUCIAL PART OF
THE CONCEPT
THAT THE
OBSERVER IS NOT
STANDING IN ONE
FIXED PLACE,BUT
IS MOVING
AROUND.
STILL LIFE BY PICASSO
Still Life with Death's Head 1907 Bread, Fruit and Table 1908
PAINTINGS OF PICASSO

Braque: Houses at La Estaque 1909

TOOLS OF CUBIST PAINTERS
 SHADING:- DARKENING THE BACKGROUND AROUND IT
LIFTED THE OBJECT OUT THE VACCUM.
 COLLAGE
 PLANE:- THE PATH OFA LINE IN MOTION BECOMES A PLANE.
 COLOUR:- WARM COLOUR SEEM NEARER AND LARGER
THEN THE AREAS THEY ACTUALLY OCCUPY.
 MODULAR

 LE CORBUSIER AND IS
ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPAL
 USE CONCRETE
SLAB AND COLUMN
 HIS DESIGN
SOLUTION
PREVALENT AT
Photo, exterior, end view
THAT TIME OF
EXPRESSIONIST
AND THE
CONTRUCTIVIST.
 UNITED HABITATION IN
MARSEILLE (1945-1952)
 THIS IS
ARCHITCTURE AS
THE “MASTERLY
CORRECT AND
MAGNIFICENT
Photo, exterior, side view
PLAY OF MASS
BROUGHT
TOGETHER IN
LIGHT .
LE CORBUSER’S FIVE POINTS
OF NEW ARCHITECTURE
 1. FREE STANDING
SUPPORTS
(PILOTIS)
 2. ROOF GARDEN
 3. FREE PLAN
 4. RIBBON
WINDOW
 FREELY
COMPOSED
FACADE