cubism

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CUBISM

Avantgarde artistic movment

• Period: 1907 - 1992
• Place: France

Was developed after Pablo Picasso's 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. How were features?

• no perspective
• no realistic modeling of figures: figures were deformed
• dynamic arrangements of volumes
• planes where background and foreground merged
• objects from various angles
• collage elements and popular culture
• sculpture

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phases of cubism

• Subjects are simplified into geometric shapes.
• There is a limited range of colors.

Protocubism (1907-1909)

• Subjects are broken down into many fragments.
• There is a chromatic uniformity of colors (ochre and gray).

Analytic Cubism (1910-1912)

• Subjects are broken down and reconfigured into synthetic and simplified shapes (technique of collage).
• The colors are vibrant and contrasting.

Synthetic Cubism (1912-1914)

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CUBISM AROUND THE WORLD

Cubism was an artistic movement that originated in Paris, developed throughout France and expanded in Europe.

• French artists: Georges Braque and Fernand Léger.
• Spain artists: Pablo Picasso and Juan and Gris.
• Lithuanian artist: Jacques Lipchitz.
• Ukrainian artist: Sonia Delaunay.

• German artists: Lyonel Feininger and Hans Hofmann.
• And some American and Filipino artists.

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PABLO PICASSO

• Born: 25th october 1881 in Malaga, Spain
• Died: 8th april 1973 in Mougins, France

• The most dominant and influential artist of the first half of the 20th century.
• He was influeced by Paul Cézanne and Henri Rousseau, to archaic and tribal art.

• He revolutionized the attitudes of the representation of form in space.
• He deconstructed the conventions of perspective (since the Renassance).
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque:
• invented collage
• made important contributions to symbolism and surrealism

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PICASSO'S WORKS

Portrait de Author Vollard (Portrait of Author Vollard) 1910 oil on canvas 92 cm X 65,5 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Le Rêve (The Dream) 1932 oil on canvas 130cm X 97 cm Private collection, New York

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SONIA DELAUNAY

• Born: 14th novermber 1885
• Died: 5th november 1979

• With her husbund create Orphism (expressive abstract paintings).
• She used Orphism to create non-objective images.

• Primary color lines next to secondary color eye would produce works of art that could be dazzling to the viewer like those depicting a standard view of reality.
• She explored expressive color in the field of textile design.

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SONIA'S WORKS

Prismes Électriques (Electric Prisms) 1914 oil on canvas 250 cm X 250 cm Collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris

Rythme (Rhythm) 1938 oil on canvas 536 cm X 595 cm Museum of Modern Art of Paris, France