Year 11 Fast Track
Mini Project – Cubism
How to use this PowerPoint
• Use this PP to plan and produce development
work for your Cubism mini project.
• You can always access it via the art website:
www.lbsart.weebly.com
• Green slides signal the start of a new stage in
your work
Project stages (green slides)
There are 3 stages to the project:
The first stage must be done before the mock exam on Friday 14th December
The final 2 stages will be done in the exam
All project work must be handed in on Monday 17th December
1. Cubism Research Board/s (AO1)
2. Cubist Still Life Drawing (AO3)
3. Cubist Still Life Painting (AO2 / AO4)
Timeline
This timeline assumes that you attend both after school sessions.
These sessions are essential for you to produce the required work.
• Week starting Monday 3rd December
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Introduction to Cubism
Analysing Cubist artwork
Starting Cubist Research board
HW:
• Week starting Monday 10th December
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Completing Cubist Research Boards
Mini practical – Cubist processes – Multiple viewpoints
HW:
• Friday 14th December – Mock Exam Day 1
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Cubist Still Life Drawing
• Monday 17th December – Mock exam Day 2
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Cubist Still Life Painting
Hand in all portfolio work
Stage 1 – Cubism Research Board/s
• You will have to show that you can: investigate
a range of sources showing analytical and
critical understanding (AO1)
• To do this you will create one or more A2
research boards about Cubist artwork and
processes
• Look carefully through the following examples
of boards and use the Cubism information
slides to help create your boards
Cubism Research Board – Minimum one board to gain COMPETENT – Grade C
Use the PowerPoint and OTHER sources (books / internet / museum)
Make notes using the 4 headings
Artwork 1
Example of
Analytical Cubism
Notes about
Artwork 1
What is analytical
cubism, how do
we recognise it?
CUBISM
General
introduction to
Cubism, how /
why did it start
and by who?
Main Artwork
(Braque,
Picasso or Gris)
Artwork 2
Example of
Synthetic Cubism
Notes about
Artwork 2
What is synthetic
cubism, how do
we recognise it?
Detailed copy
of the main
artwork using
materials
Notes about the
section you
copied, why that
section? What
materials?
Extended Boards – To provide evidence for COHERENT & CONFIDENT bands
This could be one or more boards organised however you like. It is expected that you
would use other sources as well as this PowerPoint.
The board/s should include at least two of the following.
1. A more detailed definition of the differences between SYNTHETIC & ANALYTICAL
CUBISM, using examples of artwork and evidence of research from other sources
1. Evidence of a visit to the BMAG to seek out Cubist art! See this link for some clues:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/modernmasters/art-walks/birmingham/step6.shtml
1. Examples of artwork that inspired Picasso and Braque to create the Cubist style. This
could be ancient art or the work of previous artists such as Paul Cezanne. Use visual
examples to show the links and inspirations.
2. Contemporary uses of the Cubist style in artwork and architecture , e.g. David
Hockney, David Mach, The Hyatt!
Help with annotation…
• It is very important that you write about the
art in your own words
• We don’t need an essay, simple bullet points
can be fine
• The following slides can really help, they can
also be found on the website:
• http://lbsart.weebly.com/annotationhelpsheets.html
ANALYSING AND EVALUATING ARTWORK
POINT – EVIDENCE - EXPLAIN
CUBISM
Georges Braque
01 Jan 1955
Pablo Picasso
30 Sep 1955
• The Cubist movement in painting was
developed by Picasso and Braque around
1907-1914, and became a major influence on
Western art.
Abstracted form
• The artists chose to
break down the
subjects, and reassembled in an
abstracted form —
instead of depicting
objects from one
viewpoint, the artist
depicts the subject
from a multitude of
viewpoints to
represent the subject
in a greater context.
Picasso, Aficionado
(1912)
Inspirations…
• They were greatly inspired by African sculpture, and by painters Paul Cézanne
(French, 1839-1906) and Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891),
Picasso, Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907)
Broken up
Gris, Juan, Teacups,1914
• In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in
an abstracted form. Picasso and Braque followed the advice of Paul
Cézanne, who in 1904 said artists should treat nature "in terms of the
cylinder, the sphere and the cone."
The Cubist style
• emphasized the
flat, twodimensional
surface of the
picture plane,
rejecting the
traditional
techniques of
perspective,
foreshortening,
modelling.
Braque, Georges
Violin and Candlestick
Paris, [spring 1910]
New realities
• Cubist painters were
not bound to copying
form, texture, colour,
and space; instead,
they presented a new
reality in paintings that
depicted fragmented
objects, whose several
sides were seen
simultaneously.
Gris, Juan
Landscape at Ceret, 1913
oil on canvas
Types of Cubism
• There are two main types
of cubism, analytical
cubism and synthetic
cubism. The work up to
1912 is known as
Analytical Cubism,
concentrating on
geometrical forms using
subdued colours. Analytic
cubism was mainly
practiced by Braque, and is
very simple, with dark,
almost monochromatic
colours.
Braque, Georges
Violin and Pitcher
Paris, [early 1910]
Oil on canvas
Analytical Cubism
• The main elements of Cubism were to
show a simplified subject from several
different points of view,
• Analytical Cubism was concerned with
the breaking down, or analysis, of
forms
• Colour schemes were simplified, to
nearly monochromatic
(hues of tan, brown, gray, cream, green, or blue preferred)
in order not to distract the viewer from
the artist's primary interest--the
structure of form itself
Synthetic Cubism
• The second phase after
1912, known as Synthetic
Cubism, used more
decorative shapes,
stencilling, collage, and
brighter colours. It was
then that artists such as
Picasso and Braque
started to use pieces of
cut-up newspaper in their
paintings.
Braque, Georges
Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs, [Paris, early 1913]
Oil, gouache, and charcoal on canvas.
What is Synthetic Cubism????
Grew out of analytical cubism
Real pieces of paper, scores of music replaced
drawn musical notation.
Fragments of newspaper, playing cards, cigarette packs,
and advertisements that were either real or painted
were added to paintings.
Artist such as Picasso and Braque began to
add found objects and textures into their paintings that
surrounded them in their everyday environments
They were bringing their real life objects and their paintings together
COLLAGE
They were inventing……
Or as they called it PAPIER COLLE
(French: pasted paper)
Cubism influences in Contemporary Art
David Hockney
Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1985, photocollage.
This is called a photocollage rather
than a photomontage, because it is
more three-dimensional than a
montage tends to be. Hockney
reflected extensively on his process
of collaging prints taken from a
camera as connecting to the Cubist
sense of multiple angles and
especially of movement. These
"multiples" (as he called them)
convey a strong sense of
movement,
David Mach
Post Card Collage, made up of multiple images to build
A single portrait.
Cubism Influencing Design
Buildings
Household
Fashion
Toys
Can you
identify the
following?
Braque, Georges
Still Life with Harp and Violin
1912
Oil on canvas
Answer:
• Analytical Cubism
• Why?
Braque, Georges
Still Life on a Table: "Gillette."
[Paris, early 1914]
Charcoal, pasted paper, and gouache
Answer:
• Synthetic Cubism
• Why?
Picasso "Still Life with Chair Caning"
1912 Oil and oilcloth on canvas, with rope frame
Georges Braque
Candlestick and Playing Cards
on a Table
1910
Juan Gris
Portrait of Josette Gris
1916, Oil on panel
Juan Gris
‘the Breakfast’
1915
Georges Braque ‘ Guitar and Clarinet’ 1918
Create a mind map of all the words you would use to
describe Cubism… Here are a few to get you started…
Abstract, Picasso, Braque,
Cezanne, 1907-1914,
Viewpoint,
broken ,
African Masks,
Gris,
Cylinder ,
re-assembled,
Sphere ,
David Hockney, Basic Shapes, Still Life,
Flat,
Portraits, Collage,
two-dimensional, rejecting the traditional techniques ,
innovative, Photomontage,
modelling,
form,
David Mach, Cone
texture,
colour,
perspective,
multiple view points, foreshortening,
space , Synthetic
Analytical