Cubism

Cubism!!!!

Cubism came about in the early 1900's due to Pablo Picasso trying very hard to depict form in a new way. Picasso was influenced by by ancient Iberian sculpture, paintings done by Cezanne and African sculpture. He looked to these to find inspiration for a new way of painting. Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon (the young ladies of Avignon) a painting done by Picasso was the first painting he did that could be considered cubist. Instead of representing the five women realistically, he flattened them out, reduced them to shapes and gave them jagged edges. This gave tension of abstraction and representation.



One of the first people to view this work of art was Georges Braque who at the time was a Fauve painter. He was so agitated and challenged by it that he started to rethink his own work. Together, Picasso and Braque formed cubism in 1908.


Analytic Cubism- First stage of Cubism started by Picasso and Braques that rejects naturalistic depiction and preffered a composition of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally percieved world.

Synthetic Cubism- The second stage of cubism used objects and shapes cut out of paper and other materials to construct paintings.

Analytic

Synthetic

Bibliography

Gardner's Art Through The Ages Twelfth Edition, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, 2005 Wadsworth