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