cubism

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• Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde
art movement that revolutionized European
painting and sculpture, and inspired related
movements in music, literature and
architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are
analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an
abstracted form—instead of depicting objects
from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the
subject from a multitude of viewpoints to
represent the subject in a greater context.[1]
Cubism has been considered the most
influential art movement of the 20th century.[2]
[3]
The term is broadly used in association with
a wide variety of art produced in Paris (
Montmartre and Montparnasse) or near Paris (
Puteaux) during the 1910s and throughout the
1920s.
PRECEDING
MOVEMENT
--> The movement was pioneered by Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque, and joined by Jean Metzinger
, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay,
Henri Le Fauconnier, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger.[4]
One primary influence that led to Cubism was the
representation of three-dimensional form in the late
works of Paul Cézanne.[5] A retrospective of
Cézanne's paintings had been held at the
Salon d'Automne of 1904, current works were
displayed at the 1905 and 1906 Salon d'Automne,
followed by two commemorative retrospectives
after his death in 1907.[6] to add text
ART MOVEMENT
AFTER THIS PAINTING
• The movement was conceived as ‘a new way of representing the
world’, and assimilated outside influences, such as African art, as well
as new theories on the nature of reality, such as Einstein’s Theory of
Relativity.
• Cubism is often divided into two phases – the Analytic phase (1907-
12), and the Synthetic phase (1913 through the 1920s). The initial
phase attempted to show objects as the mind, not the eye, perceives
them.
• The Synthetic phase featured works that were composed of fewer and
simpler forms, in brighter colours. Other major exponents of Cubism
included Robert Delaunay, Francis Picab,Jean Metzinger, Marcel
Duchamp and Fernand Léger.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS MOVEMENT
• Developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque among others, Cubism drew on
post-impressionist art, and particularly
the works of Paul Cézanne, which
challenged traditional notions of
perspective and form. Below are 10
iconic cubist works and the artists who
produced them. Proto-Cubism is the
introductory phase of Cubism that
began in 1906.

GEORGE BRAQUE AND PABLO PICASSO

BEGINNING AND
BACKGROUND
• In the beginning of their artistic partnership,
Picasso and Braque had become consumed with
Cezanne’s feeling for the “architecture” that
underlies nature and with his statement that
“everything in nature is based on the sphere,
cone, and cylinder.” Cezanne’s work also
suggested to Picasso and Braque that art was
neither an imitation nor an illusion of reality, but,
in effect, a new kind of reality, created through
the means of a new “language” of forms. For
Cézanne, a picture is important in its own right,
and thus, it must remain faithful to itself. Thus the
aim of painting is not to pretend that the viewer is
looking through a window, but to make the viewer
aware of the picture surface itself as well as the
subject matter it depicts.
PHILOSOPHY,THOUGHTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
MOVEMENT
• The problem facing the modern artist became how to formally
depict this new dynamic vision of life. For the painter,
specifically, the dilemma became representing the flux of time,
motion and space in a medium that lent itself to the mere
capture of the fleeting moment. Cubism was born as a
response to this predicament, and it is no accident that the
movement was a Parisian phenomenon, considering the city's
artistic legacy and its magnetic ability to attract the most
gifted young artists and writers from all over the world. Paris
offered them great art museums, a tradition of moral and
artistic freedom, and an artistic bohemia where they could live
cheaply on the margin of bourgeois society.
CHARACTERISTICS
& TECHNIQUES
• Geometricity, a simplification of figures and objects into geometrical
components and planes that may or may not add up to the whole figure
or object known in the natural world.
• Approximation of the Fourth Dimension.
• Conceptual, instead of perceptual, reality.
• Distortion and deformation of known figures and forms in the natural
world.
• The overlapping and interpenetration of planes.
• Simultaneity or multiple views, different points of view made visible on
one plane.
• The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the
picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques
of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting
time-honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature.
IMPORTANT ART
MOVEMENT
1) Analytical Cubism(1908-1912)
• This is the first stage that focused mainly on form and space, it does not accept
linear perspective and was practiced by Picasso and Braque.
• It observed the use of basic shapes and overlapping planes to reflect and show
the separate forms of the subject in a painting. It is a relatively simpler form of
cubism that works largely with dark colors and is majorly the assembling of
shapes and use of color in a very thoughtful and organized manner.
2) Synthetic Cubism ( 1912- Onward)
• This stage made use of non-art materials and saw the introduction of collage.
• This phase grew out of analytical cubism and was led by two famous cubist
painters. It, later on, became a popular style of artwork that possesses
characteristics like bright colors, simple shapes, and no depth or approximately
little depth, it was practically the introduction of a wider range of materials and
textures into the painting to create dimension.
 INFLUENCE OF
CUBISM IN MODERN
ART
• Because of the emergence of new technologies like
photography, the motor car, cinematography, and the airplane,
artists felt the need for a more radical approach, a new
perspective that would expand the possibilities of art like the
new technologies were extending the limits of communication
and travel. This new perspective was called CubiThere seem to
be different opinions regarding the moment when cubism
began. Some say that the year 1907 is its starting point. This
was also the year in which Picasso was introduced by the poet
Apollinaire to Braque. These two great painters developed their
ideas on Cubism around the year 1907 in Paris and it’s widely
known that their starting point was a common interest in the
later paintings of Paul Cezanne.sm, also known as the first
abstract style of modern art.
SOME CUBISM
ARTS
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