Cubism

CUBISM : REALITY AND ABSTRACTION Alison McGinn Cubism is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative movements of the 20th Century. The artists and paintings continue to be dissected to find more information, meaning and interest. In this essay I will briefly discuss the world at the time, the development of Cubism and the way it questioned reality and abstraction itself. Cubism is retrospectively defined as the time between 1907-1920 and is split into two sections, which will be discussed in the body of the essay. The two main artists are Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) At the turn of the century the world was changing more rapidly than had ever before. Technological innovations, theoretical…

Cubism is one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century. It is typically associated with Pablo Picasso a modernist Spanish painter. Cubism was co-invented by Picasso and Georges Braque a French painter, between the years of 1908 and 1912 in Paris, France. According to Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, the post-impressionist artist Paul Cezanne inspired Picasso and Braque with his flattened planes that “sought to undermine illusion of depth (Harris and Zucker).” However,…

Exploration Essay: Cubism Cubism was developed in the early twentieth century by Pablo Picasso (Stokstad and Cothren 516). Cubism can be described as small cubes and geometrical shapes that eventually form an image. According to Apollinaire, Podoksik, and Eimert, “it was the task of the viewer…to put this puzzle of various spatial views together into a whole” (29). This is evident in Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque’s artwork. Although Picasso and Braque worked together creating their own…

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German art historian. In his 1916 essay on The Rise of Cubism he illustrates the struggles and failures on how the Cubist movement was developed, as well as the eventual success of the Cubists and why they achieved it. At the turn of the twentieth century many artists were experimenting because they were dissatisfied with the limitations of traditional methods of creating art. They tried all sorts of approaches, however a young Pablo Picasso, unlike the rest of…

influential artists during the 20th century in the form of cubism. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. His mother was Dona Maria Picasso y Lopez and father was Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, which were both a teacher and a painter. During his childhood due to possessing a pair of watchful eyes that took in the situation and the surrounding with each glance, his mother often says that through those eyes he would be able to achieve greatness in life. With little to go by as a child,…

After reading each critic’s take on Cubism, I found that Jacques Riviere’s was the one that sparked my interest the most. In my opinion, he has more profound knowledge on the subject of Cubism because he interprets the ideas of the artists well as the mistakes. According to Rivere, the Cubist transforms their objects in two ways: eliminating lighting and perspective. They believe lighting prevents things from being seen as they truly are. Instead of lighting, the shading that is usually on some…

is well known for his introduction and development of Cubism along with Georges Braque. He is also well known for his modern approach to painting. ("Pablo Picasso and His Paintings.") Picasso also invented the style of collage and contributed to the art movements of Symbolism and Surrealism. Picasso first emerged as a Symbolist, which can be seen in his Blue and Rose Periods. ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works.") From 1901-1904, Picasso was in his Blue Period. Picasso’s…

Cubism In the beginning of the 20th century, a visual art style , was created called Cubism. It was unlikely than others because they brought different views of subjects together in the same painting using angles, lines, and shapes. It was created by the French painter Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Cubism comes from the word "cubes" that was given by Vauxcelles after he had seen the landscapes of Braque. Cubism was really popular after…

adhered to during the renaissance created a space in the picture which vanished into a single point in order to replicate the three dimensionality of our vision. This coupled with the use of shading and toning to accentuate the weight of form worked to create the illusion of looking into a realistic space. The use of formal conventions such as perspective and tone are illusionistic and therefore they were abandoned by these modern artists who were inspired to achieve a more conceptual…

Cubism was a movement developed in the 20th century by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. In its most simple analytical stage, cubism abstracted the forms of the visible world into fragment of multiple points of view, then created an image from them which had its own inner logic. Picasso and Braque began working together in 1909, and by 1910 their experimentations were so closely linked that their styles became practically undistinguishable. Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which…