Cubism

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Cubism

• Began in 1907 by Picasso and Georges Braque
• Dedicated to the simplification of painting

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Les Demoiselles dAvignon,The Maids of Avignon,
1907

• Painting that began the cubist movement
• Influenced by African masks
• As he painted, the relationship of shapes and
  colors became more important than the figures

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Mt. St. Victoire

• Used Paul Cezannes ideas that all shapes in
  nature are based on the sphere, cone and cylinder

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• Picasso and Braque carried the idea further to
  paint three dimensional objects from many
  different angles at one time
• They believed that there
• was no one fixed view of nature

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Woman Seated
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Friendship
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Analytical Cubism

• Big, flat shapes broken down even further to
  small shards in monochromatic colors
• Features broken apart and reassembled
• Shattering pattern of geometric shapes
• No interest in perspective
• Uses neutral colors

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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910
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Girl with a Mandolin
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Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910
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Aficionado
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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
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Guitar Player, 1910
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Accordionist, 1911
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Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A Staircase, No.
2, 1912
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• One critic called it, An explosion in a shingle
  factory
• A series of movements stopped in successive
  stages of action
• Like stop-action or strobe light photography

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• Blue 6B pencil is for scribbling on the back of
  your image to transfer
• Use a regular pencil or a colored pencil to trace
  the image onto your final paper
• You can use a regular pencil to fracture your
  image
• Use the gray Ebony pencil for creating value

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