Cubism
November 2012
Pablo Picasso and George Braque
Pablo Picasso
George Braque
 Inspired by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and George Braque developed
the Cubist style in Paris between 1907 and 1914 together.
http://artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906) 'Bibemus Quarry', 1895
 Cézanne abandoned perspective drawing and traditional realism.
 He saw painting as construction and arrangement of colour on a two-dimensional surface.
 It was this flat abstract approach that appealed to the Cubists and their early paintings.
http://artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
PICASSO Factory, Horta de Ebbo 1909
 In Cubism, subjects are reduced to basic geometrical shapes.
 Cezanne's doctrine of "Every thing in nature takes it's form from the sphere, cone or
cylinder.“ defined cubism.
Pablo Picasso, Woman with a Fan, 1907-1908
Primitive Cubism, 1907/1908
http://www.galilean-library.org/site/index.php/page/index.html/_/essays/art/theroots-of-modern-art-part-7-picasso-i-r15
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/
http://www.hermitage.nl/en/tentoonstellingen/matisse_tot_malevich/hoogtepunten.htm
There are three basic types of cubism
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, Picasso (1910)
Analytical Cubism, 1907/1912
Glass and Bottle of Suze
Synthetic Cubism. 1913/1920’s
Primitive cubism 1907 / 1908
 Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon of 1907 truly
introduced Cubism as
a modern art
movement.
 Picasso was greatly
interested in primitive
statues and
sculptures, which he
showed in his work
immediately preceding
the Les Demoiselles.
 Notice his use of the
primitive African
masks on the right.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/artgeometry/
Analytical Cubism 1908 / 1912
In the analytic phase (1907—12) the cubist
palette was severely limited, largely to black,
browns, greys, and off-whites.
Forms were rigidly geometric and compositions
were subtle and intricate.
The idea being to break down an image into its
many angles and views, as if to "analyse" them in
all their possible forms.
http://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/georges-braque/
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso_analyticalcubism.html
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) Picasso
Girl with a Mandolin (1910) Pablo Picasso
Synthetic Cubism 1912 / 1919
 Synthetic Cubism developed through a
construction process rather than the
analytical process such as collage.
 It was seen as the first time that collage had
been made as a fine art work.
 The first work of this new style was Picasso's
Still Life with Chair-caning (1911-1912),
which includes oil cloth pasted on the canvas.
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/cubism.html
Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1911
Picasso, Bottle and Wine Glass on a Table, 1912
Georges Braque, "Fruit Dish and Glass" 1912
http://johntimmons.com/art103/?tag=orphism
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.70.33
Glass, Bottle and Journal 1912 Charcoal and faux-bois wallpaper on paper, 48 x 62 cm
Notice how Colour is stuck on, line or shading is drawn in charcoal. The glued-on imitation wood wallpaper is an
‘authentic’ illusion, as it were, hence a witty response to the call for more realism in art.
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78630
In contrast to
Analytic Cubism,
Synthetic Cubism is
arrived at through a
construction process
rather than an
intellectual breaking
down of forms found
in the real world
such as cylinders,
spheres, and cones.
Synthetic Cubism is
more decorative and
experimental in
nature than Analytic
Cubism.
http://www.artrevived.com/blogs/art-revivedblog/1132992-the-story-behind-picassosthree-musicians
Three Musicians Fontainebleau, summer 1921
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