Pablo Picasso&

Cubism

Grade 4

Guernica

ABSTRACT ART

• CUBISM- Cubism, an abstract movement in art, developed in the early 1900's It is based on the theory that objects should be captured by showing multiple points of view simultaneously. Forms are simplified and broken apart into planes, then reassembled in an abstract form emphasizing geometric shapes. The planes are sometimes tilted by means of shading. This was the first time collage become important in modern art.

Blues Period

Rose Period

Cubism Period

The Old Guitarist

Garçon à la pipe

Dora Maar

Picasso’s Periods

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Country- Spain

Movements- Cubism (after his blue period and rose period)Media- Drawing, painting,

sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, stage design and graphic arts

Major Style and Contribution to Art

• With Braque he developed cubism, collage and “found art”

• Invented new forms of art for almost ¾ of the 20th century

Influences- Early work influenced by Post Impressionists. However, Cezanne and African sculpture inspired his cubist works.

Interesting Fact- Picasso created more than 20,000 works of art in his lifetime. In 1913, at The Armory Show in NY he introduced the new style of cubism and caused a sensation

Picasso's "Girl with a Mandolin"

Picasso-Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 234 cm W x 244 cm H, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

• Considered the first cubist artwork,

• The painting depicts five naked prostitutes in a brothel

• their figures are composed of flat, splintered planes rather than rounded volumes, their eyes are lopsided or staring or asymmetrical, and the two women at the right have threatening masks for heads.

• The space, too, which should recede, comes forward in jagged shards, like broken glass. In the still life at the bottom, a piece of melon slices the air like a scythe.

Guernica1937, oil on canvas, 7.77 m W x 3.5 m H, Prado Museum, Madrid.

• symbolic painting of the horrors of war • On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on

behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive and bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.

Georges Braque (1882-1963)Country- France

Movements-. CubismMajor Style and Contribution to

Art• One of the fathers of cubism, used

neutralized colour and complex patterns of faceted from

• After 1917 he was apart from Picasso his work was characterized by brilliant colours, textured surfaces and the reappearance of the human figure

• After 1920’s he returned to a more realistic interpretation of nature but cubism was still apparent on his art

• Famous for still lifesInfluences- Influenced by the Fauves,

Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, latter by Cezanne and his co-worker-Picasso

Interesting Fact- A critic refered to Braques paintings as “bizarreries cubiques:, thus the name cubism was formed.

Fruit Dish 1908-1909

Characteristics of Cubism:

Abstract

Broken Mirror Effect

Rearranged

Geometric

More than one view

Simplified Shapes

Abstract: does not look like real life

Self Portrait

Broken Mirror Effect:

Braque: Houses at La Estaque 1909

Three Musicians

Ambroise Vollard by Braque

Rearranged:

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse

Acrobat

Geometric Shapes:

Jacqueline with Crossed Hands Girl with a Boat

More than one view:

Nusch Éluard Marie-Therese Walter

Simplified Shapes:

Harlequin

Characteristics of Cubism:

Abstract

Broken Mirror Effect

Rearranged

Geometric

More than one view

Simplified Shapes

AbstractBroken Mirror EffectRearrangedGeometricMore than one view Simplified Shapes