Digital Photo 2:
Multi-images
Pablo Picasso: “Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage
designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century
and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism.”
The Three Musicians, 1921, oil on canvas
“Early Cubist paintings were often misunderstood
by critics and viewers because they were thought
to be merely geometric art. Yet the painters
themselves believed they were presenting a new
kind of reality that broke away from Renaissance
tradition, especially from the use of perspective and
illusion. For example, they showed multiple views
of an object on the same canvas to convey more
information than could be contained in a single,
limited illusionistic view.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/459275/Pablo-Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Carafe, Jug, and Fruit Bowl
summer 1909
Georges Braque
Violin and Palette
autumn 1909,
“[The Cubists] attempted to show objects as the mind,
not the eye, perceives them.”
-http://www.artmovements.co.uk/cubism.htm
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase
1912
“By World War I, [Duchamp] had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists as
‘retinal’ art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted, he said, ‘to
put art back in the service of the mind.’”
-http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/duch/hd_duch.htm
David Hockney
My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982
David Hockney, British, Painter, Photographer (1937- ), moved to
Los Angeles in the 1960s, influenced by Picasso and Cubism.
“While working on a painting of a Los
Angeles living room, he took a series
of photos for his own reference, and
fixed them together so he could paint
from the image. When he finished,
however, he recognized the collage as
an art form unto itself, and began to
create more.”
-http://www.biography.com/people/david-hockney9340738#later-work
David Hockney
Prehistoric Museum Near Palm Springs
1982
Photographic collage
84.5x 56.5 inches
David Hockney
Still Life Blue Guitar
April 4, 1982
Composite Polaroid
24.5 x 30 inches
David Hockney
Pearlblossom Highway
April 11-18, 1986
Photographic collage
77 x 112.5 inches
Mark Seliger
R.E.M. Band Members
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