Cubism in fashion and art

 Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements

THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART

 Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized

European painting and sculpture, and

inspired related movements in music and

literature.

works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

CUBISM-the movement

1 Analytic Cubism, was both

radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907

and 1911 in France.

2 Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

CUBISM-the movement

CUBISM-Phases

CUBISM- Most Popular Cubist

Artists

CUBISM -Cubist Painting

Some Examples of Cubist

by Juan Gris

Women with a Guitar by Georges Braque

CUBISM -Influences

Influences on Cubism

* African art has influenced many art movements

* Motivated artists to create their own

interpretations of what they saw

* Themes adapted from African art

* Distorted African masks influenced the earliest

cubist paintings.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso – 1907

Fang Mask 56

– the Fang

tribe

CUBISM -in Other Field

A part of the enormous Creators of the Bulgarian State monument near Shumen

CUBISM -period

CUBISM -early years

formal and academic art training.

Picasso attended many art schools during his childhood He never finished his studies at

the Academy of Arts in Madrid, dropping out

after only a year.

CUBISM -blue period

The Blue

Period

1901 - 1904

CUBISM -blue period

* Characterized by a

predominantly blue palette

and subjects focusing on

outcasts, beggars, and

prostitutes.

* This particular pigment is

effective in conveying a

somber tone.

* The psychological trigger

for these depressing

paintings was the suicide of

Picasso's friend Casagemas

• the gestures stiff

predominantly blue

CUBISM-blue period

The Blind Man's Meal (1903) Woman with A crow

(1903) Toledo Museum of Art

CUBISM -rose period

The Rose

Period

1901 - 1904

CUBISM -rose period

Picasso's palette brightened, the

paintings dominated by pinks

and beiges, light blues, and

roses

His subjects are saltimbanques

(circus people), harlequins, and

clowns, all of whom seem to be

mute and strangely inactive

The generally upbeat and

optimistic mood of paintings in

this period is reminiscent of the

1899–1901 period

CUBISM-rose period

Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Boy with a Pipe

* In late 1906, Inspired by

Cézanne's flattened depiction of space, and working alongside

his friend Georges Braque, he

began to express space in

strongly geometrical terms.

* These initial efforts at

developing this almost

sculptural sense of space in

painting are the beginnings of

Cubism.

CUBISM-The Beginnings

Gertrude Stein (1906) Self-Portrait with Palette (1906)

CUBISM- Les Demoiselles

d'Avignon

Analytic Cubism

(1909–1912)

CUBISM- Analytic

* The period of cubism where it’s really hard to

tell what anything is, and who the artist is

* objects were deconstructed into their

components

* In some cases, this was a means to depict

different viewpoints simultaneously

* In other works, it was used more as a method of visually laying out the FACTS of the object, rather than providing a limited mimetic representation

* The aim of Analytical Cubism was to produce a conceptual image of an object, as opposed to a

perceptual one

Accordionist (1911) The Guitar Player (1910)

Synthetic cubism

(1912–1919)

* In 1912, Picasso took the

conceptual representation of Cubism

to its logical conclusion by pasting an

actual piece of oilcloth onto the

canvas

* It was a further development of the

genre, in which cut paper fragments

—often wallpaper or portions of

newspaper pages—were pasted into

compositions

* Some of the finest Synthetic Cubist

work, both visually and conceptually,

are the collages

CUBISM-Synthetic

Woman in an Armchair (1913) Portrait of a Girl (1914)Portrait of a Girl (1914

Harlequin and Woman with a

Necklace (1917) Glass and Bottle of Suze (1912)

After Cubist

Period

* After the war, Picasso, reflecting

society's disillusionment and shock with the technological horrors of the war, reverted to a Classicist mode of representation

* During the '30s Picasso became

tangentially connected with the

Three musicians (1921)

Guernica (1937)

Sculptor Picasso

Picasso explored other artistic styles to

express himself, including sculpture

Mandolin and Clarinet and Chicago Picasso

are two examples of cubist sculpture

CUBISM-Sculptures

Mandolin and Clarinet

Mandolin and Clarinet