Cubism
Deena Sami Radhi
12F
March 10th, 2012
Introduction
• “When we discovered Cubism, we did not
have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only
wanted to express what was in us.” – Pablo
Picasso.
• Cubism
1. Art movement
2. Abstract art
3. New style of art
• Thesis statement
What is Cubism?
• Art movement in Paris (
between 1907 and 1914).
• Visual art style
• Modern art
• First style of Abstract art
• Invented by Spanish artist
Pablo Picasso and French
artist Georges Braque.
Cubism characteristics
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Multiple angles
Reconstruct objects
3-dimensional objects
Geometric shapes
Contrasting viewpoints
Reality in paintings
Depth and enrichment in
paintings.
Analytic Cubism (1907-1912)
• First cubism phase
• Limited colors
• Multiple views of an object
Synthetic Cubism
(1913-1920)
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Bright colors
Contrasting textures
Collage
Fragmented forms
Construction
Pablo Picasso (18811973)
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Spanish painter
Sculptor
Invented cubism
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Abstracting his work
Influenced by African
sculptures
Blue and Rose
period
• Blue period (1901-1906)
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Dark colored
Depression
Sorrow
• Rose period (1904-1906)
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Bright colors
Optimistic
Happy
Les Demoiselles d’Avigon
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Painted in 1907
Painted by Pablo Picasso
African art
First painting
Modern art
Georges Braque (18821963)
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French painter
Sculptor
Invented Cubism
Geometry
Light
Houses at L’Estaque
The Influence of Cézanne
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French artist
Geometric forms
Abstract paintings
Compressed picture
Flatten space in
paintings
• Braque
The influence of
African art
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Western art
African sculptures
Les Demoiselles d’Avigon
Style
Other artists of cubism:
Works Cited
• "Cubism." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. 2012.
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• Florman, Lisa. "Picasso: Style and Meaning/Picasso and
the Invention of Cubism/A Sum of Destructions:
Picasso's Cultures and the Creation of Cubism/Picasso:
The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier." The Art
Bulletin 86.3 (2004): 614+. Questia. Web. 5 Mar. 2013.
• Golding, John. Cubism: A History and an Analysis,
1907-1944. London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Questia.
Web. 5 Mar. 2013.
• "Modern Art." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed.
2012. Questia. Web. 5 Mar. 2013.
Works cited
• Bashkoff, Tracey. "From Picasso to Pollock: Classics of
Modern Art: Highlighting the Aesthetic Vanguard from
Cubism through Abstract Expressionism, This WideRanging Exhibition Features Works by Some of the Last
Century's Most Influential Artists." USA TODAY Sept.
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