Like Expressionism, it was influenced by an interest in African and Oceanic art objects and making paintings two-demensional surface holding a design and not a presentation of something. It wasn't concerned with emotion or personal feelings. Mainly, it just breaked people and stuff down into little blocks and into a million different pieces and then reconstucting them. There are two types of cubism....
- Analytical Cubism, which is shattering of fragments and then reconstructing them, as I explained earlier.
- Synthetic Cubism, which uses collage, stencils and glue to produce a surface image.
And know the pictures
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, by Pablo Picasso
This painting marked the beginning of cubist painting. The influence of the African Mask, which can be seen with the two figures on the right, forced Picasso to rework the entire geometry of the frame. The critics called it "Cubism" because of it's geometric emphasis. And on another note, the woman in this picture actually existed but they didn't look like this. At least I hope they didn't, because it would be very hard being a prostitute that looked like that.
Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp
This was a very controversial painting that was completly misunderstood by the American public and critics, possibly because it dosn't look like a nude descending a staircase. One critic called it shingles. The thing about this painting is that it shows the various stages of a nude descending a staircase, each one frozen in place at the same time.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, by Pablo Picasso
If the painting looks a little grey and dull, that's because most paintings by Cubism are grey and dull. This shows a fully developed style in Picasso by 1910.
Guitar, by Pablo Picasso
This is an example of Synthetic Cubism, which my notes say "grew with Picasso's work with George Braque" whoever he was. This statue, made from sheet metal and wire, was a radical departure from making statues with stone or wood. It was also a fore-runner for modern sculpture which would be constructed as compared to made from stone or wood.
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Of these three genres, expressionism is by far my favourite. Just felt like pointing that out. The others are still cool though, in their own way.
Ah, know I'm sorry I left that out.
Hehe, it's okay. There is a Google, after all. ;)
Cubism and protocubism are probably my favorite Pablo Picasso periods! I think that like the artist himself these styles of painting are defined by their internal contradictions!
And Picasso certainly was a man of deep contradictions! For example, Picasso was a self avowed communist, however, Picasso was also one of the world's wealthiest artists, leaving his heirs an estate valued at $260 million ($1.5 billion in 2008 dollars) when he died in 1973. Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'I like to live like a poor man, except with lots of money'
A good collection of Picasso cubism protocubism and rose period paintings
i know this guy called henry that loved this picture in particular.
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