Cubism

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Cubism

• bizarre cubiques
• full of little cubes

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Cubist Art

• objects that are broken into geometrical shapes
  and put back together in a more abstract way
• the geometrical components become more important
  than the subject itself
• monochromatic, more emphasis placed on the shapes
• Image represented from multiple viewpoints
• Surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles
• Shallow, ambiguous space

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• 20th century avant-garde art movement
• Pioneered by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque
  (Montmartre, Paris)
• Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne were both
  influential to the formation of Cubism and to the
  paintings of Picasso in 1906-1907.
• Cezanne tended to break the surface into small
  areas of paint and simplified natural forms into
  cones, cylinders, and spheres.

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Avant-garde

• Pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the
  norm (primarily in culture)
• Innovative and ahead of the majority
• Promotion of radical social reforms
• Work opposed to mainstream commercial values and
  often has an abrasive social or political edge.

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Analytic Cubism

• 1907 1911, France
• Analysis of the subject pulling it apart into
  planes
• Reduced natural forms to their geometric parts
• Subdued colours (almost monochromatic)

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Synthetic Cubism

• Movement spread until 1919 when the Surrealist
  movement gained popularity
• Different textures, surfaces, collage elements,
  large variety of merged subject matte
• Pushing of several objects together less
  shading flatter space
• Picasso Still Life with Chair-caning

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Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1913 Picassos
first piece of Synthetic Cubism
Ma Jolie, 1911-1912 Analytic Cubism
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Georges Braque
The Pedestal Table, 1911 Example of Analytic
Cubism
Woman with a Guitar, 1913 Early example of
Synthetic Cubism