CUBISM

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CUBISM

• Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a
  mountain and looking around. If you go higher,
  things will look different if you go lower,
  again they will look different. It is a point of
  view. Jacques Lipchitz

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Cubism

• A name suggested by Henri Mattisse in 1909
• A non-objective approach to painting
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1906
• Pre-Cubist (1906) emphasizing the process of
  construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and
  converting the represented forms into the
  essential geometric shapes (cube, sphere,
  cylinder, cone)
• Analytical Cubism (1909-1911) transpose the
  three- dimensional subjects into the flat images
  on the surface of the canvas.
• Cubist palette was limited to monochromatic scale
  colors, dominated by grays and browns.
• Synthetic Cubism (1912-1920s) focused on the
  construction (new textures and materials) and not
  the represented objects in the painting became
  more abstract and color expanded to many other
  colors

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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910
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Pablo Picasso, "Three Musician's", 1921
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Pablo Picasso
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Popova, Two Figures
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Juan Gris (1887-1927)Violin and Glass (oil on
canvas, 1915)
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Students started by drawing a large, fairly
simple image in the center of their paper
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Then they cut out a simple shape, which may or
may not be somehow related to their chosen
subject, out of cardstock.
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They traced this shape all over their design in
order to break-up or 'fracture' the image. Below
you can see this student used a skull for her
main subject, and a bone shape to break it up.
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Then, using colored pencils, students chose their
colors and practiced creating gradations from
light to dark- simply vary the pressure of the
colored pencil.
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Then start coloring each section- change colors
when you encounter a line.
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