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CUBISM Europe and America, 1900 to 1945

CUBISM Europe and America, 1900 to 1945. Spanish. Had “blue” period and “red” period Inspiration: Velazquez, Manet, Cezanne, “primitive” masks. PICASSO.

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CUBISM Europe and America, 1900 to 1945

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  1. CUBISM Europe and America, 1900 to 1945

  2. Spanish. Had “blue” period and “red” period Inspiration: Velazquez, Manet, Cezanne, “primitive” masks PICASSO

  3. PABLO PICASSO, Gertrude Stein, 1906–1907*. Oil on canvas, 3’ 3 3/8” x 2’ 8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York--OUTSTANDINGpatron of the avant-garde--Displays some tribal features (avant-garde artists saw the art of Africa and Oceana “pure” because they use abstract forms to convey meaning

  4. PABLO PICASSO, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907*. Oil on canvas, 8’ x 7’ 8”. Museum of Modern Art, New York-Prostitutes-vanitas-multiple vantage points-shocked most of his artist friends except Braque

  5. Braque and Picasso are inventors Derives its name from Matisse calling a Braque painting “nothing but little cubes” Reexamining of shapes and qualities of objects by breaking them apart into simple geometric shapes Cezanne MAJOR influence! 2 types of Cubism—Analytic and Synthetic CUBISIM

  6. Picasso and Braque Analyzed the forms of objects before reconstituting them Used MUTED colors so as not to distract the viewer from interpreting the shapes ANALYTIC CUBISM

  7. GEORGES BRAQUE, The Portuguese, 1911*. Oil on canvas, 3’ 10 1/8” x 2’ 8”. Kunstmuseum, Basel--Based on a Portuguese guitar player Braque knew

  8. Also by Picasso and Braque Pasting synthetic objects (paper, cloth, etc.) to create a collage Still Life with Chair Caning by Picasso is the 1st synthetic cubist piece of art! SYNTHETIC CUBISM

  9. PABLO PICASSO, Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1912*. Oil and oilcloth on canvas, 10 5/8” x 1’ 1 3/4”. Musée Picasso, Paris.

  10. Deals with the Spanish Civil War (Franco asks the German Luftwaffe to bomb the republican Guernica to test their concept of “Bliztkrieg”. Commissioned by the republican Spanish in exile. PABLO PICASSO, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11’ 5 1/2” x 25’ 5 3/4”. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

  11. Picasso’s Guitar used the concept of “space” and influenced others Cubist sculpture is know for: --fragmented forms --flat planes --multiple viewpoints CUBIST SCULPTURE

  12. PABLO PICASSO, maquette for Guitar, 1912*. Cardboard, string, and wire (restored), 1’ 1 1/4” x 1” x 7 1/2”. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

  13. Becomes one of the most famous sculptors of the 20th C. --fragmented forms --flat planes --multiple viewpoints JACQUES LIPCHITZ, Bather, 1917*. Bronze, 2’ 10 3/4” x 1’ 1 1/4” x 1’ 1”. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

  14. JULIO GONZÁLEZ, Woman Combing Her Hair, ca. 1936*. Iron, 4’4” x1’11 1/2”x2’5/8”. Museum of Modern Art, New York--Takes deconstructing even further!--Will influence Calder later on with the use of wire

  15. VOID! HOW is it referencing classical sculpture? ALEKSANDR ARCHIPENKO, Woman Combing Her Hair, 1915*. Bronze, 1’ 1 3/4” x 3 1/4” x 3 1/8”. Museum of Modern Art, New York--VERY different for Russian sculpture at the time

  16. ROBERT DELAUNAY, Champs de Mars or The Red Tower, 1911*. Oil on canvas, 5’ 3” x 4’ 3”. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.--COLOR CUBISM--Will influence the Futurists and the German Expressionists

  17. Cubism based on machine forms (beauty in machines) FERNAND LÉGER, The City, 1919*. Oil on canvas, 7’ 7” x 9’ 9 1/2”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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