Cubism

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Cubism

• Pablo Picasso

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Cubism

• The Cubism movement started in the early 1900s.
• Pablo Picasso is one of the artists who pioneered
  this movement.
• So, where did this movement come from?

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The mind of Pablo Picasso
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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Pablo Picasso

• Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in a small town in
  southern Spain
• His father was a painter who taught art
• Picasso was amazing at an early age he attended
  the Royal Academy of Madrid starting at 16
• Picassos teachers made him draw from plaster
  casts, which he thought was a ridiculous way to
  learn, so he began to work on his own
• His father disliked his rebellious behavior, long
  hair and strange clothes he believed that
  Picasso was wasting his talent, asking him, Why
  dont you cut your hair and paint sensibly?

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Picasso continued

• In 1900, Picasso went to Paris the center of
  the art world.
• In Paris, he lived in an old building and
  constantly reflected on his dismal surroundings,
  which is often depicted in his early, realistic
  work.
• Pablo Picasso was creating his artwork during the
  early to mid 1900s
• Picasso didnt sell a lot of his work in his
  early years, but he is now one of the worlds
  most famous artists
• His career lasted more than 70 years
• Picasso lived to be 92 years old

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Picassos influence on Cubism

• No artist has affected modern art more!
• Picasso has completed thousands of masterpieces
  he went through a lot of different movements.
  Even though a lot of people think all of his work
  is weird, its not true!

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Early pieces by Pablo Picasso
Autoportrait à la palette (Self-Portrait with a
Palette), oil on canvas, Autumn 1906.
1896 self-portrait.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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Moving into Cubism

• Gertrude Stein, 1906
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Self-Portrait, 1907 http//www.artchive.com/artch
ive/P/picasso/self7.jpg.html
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Aficionado, 1912
The Glass, 1911 http//www.artchive.com/art
chive/P/picasso/wineglss.jpg.html
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/p/picasso/aficion
a.jpg
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L'Accordéoniste, a 1911
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Picassos epiphany

• After Picasso had experienced the work of African
  artists specifically masks and sculptures his
  work became more simplified and angular. This
  was the start of the Cubism movement.
• Picasso had a vision regarding what he wanted to
  represent through art with his new ideas. His
  goals included the following

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The goals of Cubism include

• Getting as close to reality as possible by
  representing a real, natural object on a flat
  canvas by showing every side of the object.
• Taking each point of view and emphasizing the
  geometric shapes by spreading all of these points
  out on a canvas.
• Unfolding an image.
• EXAMPLE Three Musicians, 1921
• As Cubism developed, Picasso began to combine
  several points of view of an object and to
  overlap them this led to some images becoming
  almost unrecognizable.

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Some things we need to know

• Line
• Positive Space
• Negative Space
• Value

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Line

• Contour Line A line that defines the boundaries
  of a form.www.artsmia.org/art_in_america/glossary
  .html
• Practice
• Remember use the RIGHT SIDE of your brain! Get
  out of your LEFT SIDE and just experience the
  process.

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Positive Space Negative Space

• What is the Positive Space in this image?
• What is the Negative Space in this image?

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Value

• The degree of light to dark

Different degrees of values can add interest to
an image by creating the idea of depth, texture
and more.
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Pull it all together

• Cubism
• Line
• Positive Space
• Negative Space
• Value
• Using the influence of CUBISM, well be creating
  Shattered Images

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Shattered Images
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Shattered Images