Pablo Picasso

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Pablo PicassoCubism

• Grade 4

Guernica
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ABSTRACT ART

• CUBISM- Cubism, an abstract movement in art,
  developed in the early 1900's It is based on the
  theory that objects should be captured by showing
  multiple points of view simultaneously. Forms are
  simplified and broken apart into planes, then
  reassembled in an abstract form emphasizing
  geometric shapes. The planes are sometimes tilted
  by means of shading. This was the first time
  collage become important in modern art.

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Picassos Periods
Blues Period
Cubism Period
Garçon à la pipe
Rose Period
Dora Maar
The Old Guitarist
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Country- Spain
Movements- Cubism (after his blue period and
rose period)

• Media- Drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics,
  mosaics, stage design and graphic arts
• Major Style and Contribution to Art
• With Braque he developed cubism, collage and
  found art
• Invented new forms of art for almost ¾ of the
  20th century
• Influences- Early work influenced by Post
  Impressionists. However, Cezanne and African
  sculpture inspired his cubist works.
• Interesting Fact- Picasso created more than
  20,000 works of art in his lifetime. In 1913, at
  The Armory Show in NY he introduced the new style
  of cubism and caused a sensation

Picasso's "Girl with a Mandolin"
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Picasso-Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 1907, oil on
canvas, 234 cm W x 244 cm H, Museum of Modern
Art, New York.

• Considered the first cubist artwork,
• The painting depicts five naked prostitutes in a
  brothel
• their figures are composed of flat, splintered
  planes rather than rounded volumes, their eyes
  are lopsided or staring or asymmetrical, and the
  two women at the right have threatening masks for
  heads.
• The space, too, which should recede, comes
  forward in jagged shards, like broken glass. In
  the still life at the bottom, a piece of melon
  slices the air like a scythe.

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Guernica1937, oil on canvas, 7.77 m W x 3.5 m H,
Prado Museum, Madrid.

• symbolic painting of the horrors of war
• On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are
  perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the
  civilian population of a little Basque village in
  northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by
  Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is
  pounded with high-explosive and bombs for over
  three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run
  from the crumbling buildings. Sixteen hundred
  civilians are killed or wounded.

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Georges Braque (1882-1963)Country- France
Movements-. Cubism

• Major Style and Contribution to Art
• One of the fathers of cubism, used neutralized
  colour and complex patterns of faceted from
• After 1917 he was apart from Picasso his work was
  characterized by brilliant colours, textured
  surfaces and the reappearance of the human figure
• After 1920s he returned to a more realistic
  interpretation of nature but cubism was still
  apparent on his art
• Famous for still lifes
• Influences- Influenced by the Fauves, Henri
  Matisse and Andre Derain, latter by Cezanne and
  his co-worker-Picasso
• Interesting Fact- A critic refered to Braques
  paintings as bizarreries cubiques, thus the
  name cubism was formed.

Fruit Dish 1908-1909
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• Characteristics of Cubism
• Abstract
• Broken Mirror Effect
• Rearranged
• Geometric
• More than one view
• Simplified Shapes

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Abstract does not look like real life
Self Portrait
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Broken Mirror Effect
Three Musicians
Braque Houses at La Estaque 1909
Ambroise Vollard by Braque
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Rearranged
Acrobat
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse
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Geometric Shapes
Jacqueline with Crossed Hands
Girl with a Boat
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More than one view
Nusch Éluard
Marie-Therese Walter
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Simplified Shapes
Harlequin
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• Characteristics of Cubism
• Abstract
• Broken Mirror Effect
• Rearranged
• Geometric
• More than one view
• Simplified Shapes

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• Abstract
• Broken Mirror Effect
• Rearranged
• Geometric
• More than one view
• Simplified Shapes