Cubism

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Cubism
By Caitlin Shuttlesworth
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Timeline..

• December 31, 1869 Henri Matisse born
• October 25, 1881 Pablo Picasso born
• May 13, 1882 Georges Braque born in
  Argenteuil-Sur-Seine, France
• 1908 Cubism founded
• 1907-1909 The first phase of Cubism when both
  Picasso Braque were firmly under Cézannes
  influence
• 1910-1912 Second Cubist phase, Analytic Cubism,
  where objects were fragmented displayed from
  several angles at once
• 1912 New phase called Synthetic Cubism where
  artists reconstruct the space objects of their
  works with fragmented forms, was formed when
  Picasso created his first collage
• November 3, 1954 Henri died at age 84 in Nice,
  France
• August 31, 1963 Georges dies in Paris at age 81
• April 8, 1973 Picasso dies in Mougins, France at
  age 91

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Cubism is..

• a more modern art movement in which forms are
  abstracted by using an analytical approach to the
  object painting the basic geometric solid of
  the subject.

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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-honored theories of art as the imitation of
  nature.

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Cubist painters..

• were not bound to copying form, texture, color,
  and space instead, they presented a new reality
  in paintings that depicted radically fragmented
  objects, whose several sides were seen
  simultaneously.

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Analytical Cubism is..

• where objects are fragmented displayed from
  several different angles at once

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Synthetic Cubism..

• is where artists reconstructed the space
  display of their works with fragmented forms

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Where it started..

• Cubism started in France.
• Analytical Synthetic also started in France.

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Pablo Picasso

• Born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881
• Died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France
• He was referred to as Picasso
• Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who
  was best known for co-founding Cubism along with
  Georges Braque
• Pablo was married twice and had four children by
  three women

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Pablo Picasso

• Studio with
• Plaster Head
• 1925

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Georges Braque

• Born on May 13, 1882
• He was a French painter and sculptor best known
  for co-founding Cubism with Pablo Picasso
• He produced many great pieces of art in his life
  and passed on August 31, 1963

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Georges Braque

• Woman with
• a Guitar
• 1913

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Henri Matisse

• Born on December 31, 1869 in Picardy, France
• Died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, France
• Known as the Master of Color
• The Chapel of the Rosary in Venice
• He was a French artist noted for color and his
  fluid brilliant and original drawings.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the
branches of a tree so that it will grow
better. -Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse

• Open Window
• 1905

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Works Cited

• Malloy, Nancy. European Art Since 1850. New York
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  Dec. 2007
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  2007
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  2007
• Georges Braque Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 3 Dec.
  2007