of the 20th century

Cubism

Background Information

• Originated in Paris• Roughly 1908• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque– Robert Delaunay– Marcel Duchamp (1912)

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Emergence

• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)• Picasso’s way of representing three-

dimensional images as a two-dimensional design

• Viewed by Georges Braque; together they formulated Cubism (1908)

Ideas and Principles

• Rejection of naturalistic depictions• Use of shapes and forms abstracted from the

conventionally perceived world• Method of dissecting subject forms and laying

them across a canvas• Entirely different way to represent an image

Visual Characteristics

• Multiple viewpoints of different features• Indistinct spaces • Use of shapes to create an image

Pablo PicassoLes Demoiselles d’Avignon1907

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Georges Braque The Portuguese 1911

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Robert Delaunay Champs de Mars or The Red Tower 1911

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Pablo PicassoStill Life with Chair-Caning 1912

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Georges BraqueBottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass1913

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Source

• Kleiner, Fred, and Christin Mamiya. Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western

Perspective. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. Print.