Cubist Art Miss N Gardiner

September 2005

CUBISM• The Cubist movement

lasted from about 1908 to 1914 (WW1)

• There are many different styles of Cubist art but all represent distortions of the visible world.

Picasso’s: Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc, 1914

CUBISM• Cubist painting is recognised as one of the

great turning points in Western Art and was developed by PICASSO and BRAQUE.

• The name Cubism comes from a painting by BRAQUE which was described as being composed of cubes.

GEORGES BRAQUE

CUBISM• The artists broke down the subjects they

were representing into different parts so that many different aspects of the same objects could be seen at the same time.

• The Cubists did not– use conventional perspective – use realistic colours– keep to one single viewpoint

CUBISM• A cubist painting

might show the front, back and side views of an object – all at the same time, making the image look very complicated

TWO TYPES OF CUBISM

• There are two types of Cubism:

–Analytical Cubism

–Synthetic Cubism

Analytical Cubism• Analytical Cubism

was mainly Geometric shapes and colour was subdued.

Synthetic Cubism• Synthetic Cubism –

colour became more important and the shapes more decorative with stencilled letters and pieces of newspaper being introduced