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Cubism: The First Form of Abstract Art

Cubism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. [1] Cubism was developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907-1914, characterized by the depiction of subjects from multiple viewpoints to represent the subject in a multidimensional way. [2] Cubist paintings are abstract representations of reality that depict subjects by breaking them up, analyzing their shapes, and reassembling them in an abstracted form. [3] Cubism influenced later art movements and modern art in its radical shift away from traditional 3-dimensional perspective in favor of geometric abstraction.

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Cubism: The First Form of Abstract Art

Cubism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. [1] Cubism was developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907-1914, characterized by the depiction of subjects from multiple viewpoints to represent the subject in a multidimensional way. [2] Cubist paintings are abstract representations of reality that depict subjects by breaking them up, analyzing their shapes, and reassembling them in an abstracted form. [3] Cubism influenced later art movements and modern art in its radical shift away from traditional 3-dimensional perspective in favor of geometric abstraction.

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CUBISM

THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART


Cubism art

Cubism art is a style of painting that


is one of the modernist trends.
Cubism originated in France at the
beginning of the 20th century.
INTRODUCTION TO CUBISM
The name Cubism was
suggested by Henri Matisee
in 1909. He observed that
the pictures themselves
consisted of nothing but
little cubes.

The idea behind Cubism is


to show the essence of an
object by displaying it from
many different angles and
points of view at the same
time.
INTRODUCTION TO CUBISM

Cubist paintings are


abstract, they are an
attempt at a more realistic
way of seeing.

Cubism proposed that the


work of art was itself a
reality that represented the
very process by which
nature is transformed into
art.
Characteristics of Cubism
splintered shapes, flattened space, and
geometric blocks of colors
quest to find a new concept of painting
as an arrangement of form and color on
a 2-D surface
multiple angles
reconstruct objects
battle between what the eyes see and
what the mind knows is suppose to be
there
Paul Cézanne and his influence
He liked to flatten the
space in his paintings to
place emphasis on their
surface: to stress the
difference between a
painting and reality.

Cézanne was a French


artist during the Post-
Impressionist era and his
ideas behind art influenced
Fauvism, Cubism, and
Expressionism.
Paul Cézanne and his influence

He used color, line, and


form in his work to describe
how the human eye sees
nature

He also taught cubists the


importance of viewing
objects from multiple
angles and trying to
incorporate them onto one
canvas.
Rocky Landscape at Aix, 1887 by Paul Cezanne
Pablo Picasso

Picasso's cubist art was


influenced by Cézanne and
African Sculpture.

He worked with Braque and


their influences on each
others work allowed for the
development of cubism as
we know it
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

by: Pablo Picasso


Girl before a Mirror

by: Pablo Picasso


Georges Braque

A part inventor of Cubism.


Violin and Candlestick

by: Georges Braque


The Portuguese

by: Georges Braque


Braque & Picasso Influence Each Other
Picasso and Braque were the fathers of
Cubism.
The close contact between Picasso and
Braque was crucial to the style of
Cubism. The two artists collaborated
very closely, regularly meeting to
discuss their progress.
Types of Cubism
Analytical Cubism: This was Girl with a Mandolin by Pablo Picasso
the early form of cubism that
lasted until about 1912. The
artwork was unified by the
use of a subdued and limited
palette of colors.

Analytic Cubists reduced


natural forms to their basic
geometric parts and then
tried to reconcile these
essentially 3-D parts with
the 2-D picture plane
Characteristics of Analytical Cubism
Objects are analyzed from many
perspectives.
Artist incorporates many of these
perspectives in the painting itself.
The painting, instead of directly
showing the subject, "evokes a sense of
the subject."
Still Life With A Bunch of Grapes
by Georges Braque
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
by Pablo Picasso
Types of Cubism
Synthetic Cubism: Began around Guitar and Clarinet by Juan Gris
1912. It no longer concerned with
exploring the anatomy of nature,
but turns to the creation of a new
anatomy that is far less
dependent upon the principle of
perception.

The painters attention was


focused on the construction, not
the analysis of the object.
Characteristics of Synthetic Cubism
Objects are still drawn from multiple
perspectives, but they are more
discernable, and they are more colorful.
pushing of several objects together
fewer planar shifts
less shading and flatter space
Still Life with a Guitar
by Pablo Picasso
The three musicians
by Pablo Picasso
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