Exploring Cubism

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Exploring Cubism
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Paul Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne

• Greatly influenced Picasso.
• New take on surface appearances.
• Did not imitate reality but penetrated the
  underlying geometry.
• Reproduce nature in terms of the cylinder,
  sphere and cone.
• Simplified objects to near abstract form.
• Reproduced reality to its basic components in a
  systematic way.

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Marcel DuChamp
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Marcel DuChamp1887-1968

• Known as a facet Cubist.
• His work caused an uproar and the Armory Show of
  1913.
• Public officials wanted to shut down the show to
  safeguard public morals.
• Americans became aware of the artistic revolution
  happening in Paris.

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Fernand Leger
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Fernand Leger

• He was dubbed the Tubist.
• He was intrigued by the application of painting
  to his industrial environment.
• Careful shading technique changes geometric
  shapes to three-dimensional forms.

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Romare Bearden
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The Cotton Pickers
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She-Ba
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Romare Bearden1912-1988

• Social realist in Harlem in 1930s
• As an African-American, he thought it was
  important to paint the life of my people as I
  know it.
• In 1964, he found his mature style-photo-collage.
• Picasso told him in the 1950s you have to tell a
  lie to get a stronger truth.

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Jacob Lawrence
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Jacob Lawrence1917- 2000

• Social Realist- He was known as another voice of
  freedom and social change for African-American
  people.
• Work was funded by the WPA Federal Arts program
  in the 1930s to support and bring African
  American artists together- the Harlem
  Renaissance.
• Looked to the art of Africa as an influence.

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David Hockney
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David Hockney

• Used photo-collage to deal with time and movement
  in his work.
• Inspired by Picasso.
• Also wanted to reveal the essence of a person.

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Miriam Schapiro
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Miriam Schapiro

• Schapiro's paintings and "femmages"
  (feminist-oriented collages).
• A pioneering force in the feminist art movement
  of the 1970s, Best known for her large heart- and
  fan-shaped canvases layered with fabric and paint
• Launched the Pattern and Decoration movement of
  the 1970s and 1980s and developed a richly
  decorative style.

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Henri Matisse

• Inspired Shapiros collages
• He called this work
• carving in color
• Painted big sheets of paper
• then cut them to create a collage