Cubism

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Cubism

• 1908 - 1920

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Juan Gris

• 1887 - 1927

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Juan Gris Artistic Credo

• Bases his Cubism on the set square and the
  t-square
• Structures his paintings on the basis of
  architecture and mathematics
• Creates through what he termed the art of
  synthesis or deductive art
• Starts from a geometrical shape to create an
  object
• First comes the imaginary concept of the painting
  (archetypal structure)
• Is followed by its confrontation with reality

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Juan Gris. Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1912).
Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Still Life with Oil Lamps (1911-12).
Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Man in the Café (1912). Oil on
canvas.
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Juan Gris. The Smoker (1913). Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Pears and Grapes on a Table (1913).
Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. The Guitar (1913). Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Fruit Dish and Carafe (1914). Oil,
papier-collé, and charcoal on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Flowers (1914). Oil, papier-collé,
and pencil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Tea Cups (1914). Oil, papier-collé,
and charcoal on canvas.
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Juan Gris. The Sunblind (1914). Gouache,
collage, chalk, and charcoal on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Man in a Café (1914). Oil and papier
collé on canvas.
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Juan Gris. The Table (1914). Collage, charcoal,
and gouache on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Musicians Table (1914). Fusain,
graphite, and colored paper on canvas.
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Juan Gris. The Bottle of Banjuls (1914).
Painted papers, oil, charcoal, gouache, and
pencil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Still Life in Front of an Open
Window Place Ravignan (1915). Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris. Le Journal (1916). Oil on wood panel.
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Juan Gris. The Violin (1916). Oil on 3-ply wood
panel.
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Fernand Léger
1881-1955
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Fernand Légers Artistic Credo

• First employed tubular, fractured forms and
  bright colors highlighted by juxtaposition with
  cool whites
• Then moved on to urban and machine imagery
• Favored sharply delineated, flat shapes,
  unmodeled color areas, and combinations of human
  and machine forms

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Fernand Léger. Nudes in the Forest (1909-11). Oil
on canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Woman in Blue (1912). Oil on
canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Woman in Red and Green (1914).
Oil on canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Soldier with a Pipe (1916). Oil
on canvas.
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Fernand Leger. The Cardplayers (1917). Oil on
canvas.
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Fernand Léger. The City (1919). Oil on
canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Three Women (Le Grand déjeuner),
1921. Oil on canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Skating Rink in La Création
du monde (1921).
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Fernand Léger. Woman with a Vase (1928). Oil
on canvas.
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Fernand Léger. Three Musicians (1944). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay

• 1885-1941

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Robert Delaunays Artistic Credo

• Focuses on the city of Paris and its vertical
  structures, especially the Eiffel Tower series of
  paintings
• Uses multiple points of view as if one moment of
  time is captured at once simultaneity of time
  and space
• Later explores multiple views, transparency, and
  simultaneity in his Windows series
• Exterior and interior worlds merge on a flat
  surface of flickering color patches

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Robert Delaunay. St. Séverin (1909). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. City, First Study (1909). Oil
on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. City, First Study (1909). Oil
on canvas.
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The Eiffel Tower Series

• visions of catastrophic insight. . . cosmic
  shakings, desire for the great cleanup, for
  burying the old, the past . . . Europe crumbles

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Robert Delaunay. Eiffel Tower (1910). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Eiffel Tower with Trees
(1910). Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Eiffel Tower with Curtains
(1910). Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Eiffel Tower (1910-11). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Eiffel Tower Champ de Mars
The Red Tower (1911). Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. The Red Tower (1911-12). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. The City No.2 (1911). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. The City of Paris (1910-12).
Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Simultaneous Windows (2nd Motif,
1st Part), 1912. Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. The Windows (1912). Oil on
canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Sun, Tower, and Airplane
(1913). Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Simultaneous Contrasts Sun
and Moon (1913). Oil on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Homage to Bleriot ( 1914).
Watercolor on canvas.
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Robert Delaunay. Simultaneous Disk (first
non-objective painting), 1912-13. Oil on canvas.