After exploring numerous artists active during the 20th century, I found some of their ideas revolving around certain artworks and art movement intriguing. For example, the idea of pure painting and the savage caught my interest, especially when I started sensing a common thread between them. In 1913, Guillaume Apollinaire associated cubists such as Pablo Picasso and Robert Delaunay as the ones who created “pure painting”. Later in the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet sought out to discover the savage within humanity.
When introduced to “pure painting”, I discovered my strong opposition to Apollinaire’s interpretation in regards to purity. However, this led to my increasing interest to understand what he means when he describes cubism as pure. It …show more content…
As stated before Apollinaire associated Picasso as an artist who created a form of pure painting. An artwork that represented cubism, especially scientific cubism, is Femme à la mandoline (Fig 1). Not only does this work contain a geometrical aspect in the image’s style, but it also presents how Picasso escapes reality. With Femme à la mandoline, Picasso used mainly straight and angled lines to produce an image that provides subtle hints at a woman playing the mandolin. Between other works, I chose this one because how faint everything is. Also, I believe this piece embodies Apollinaire’s point about new artists and how their works reject the previous rules associated with art. Especially since it lacks a clear subject and only the title helps discern what the image depicts. The only notable elements that I distinguished are the mandolin and an arm. These parts reside in the bottom half of the image; two short brown lines indicate the woman’s fingers or the mandolin’s strings with two angled line stemming from it. In addition, Picasso constructed the mandolin with curved and straight lines which define its basic shape. But the woman didn’t receive as much attention to me because she doesn’t catch my
When introduced to “pure painting”, I discovered my strong opposition to Apollinaire’s interpretation in regards to purity. However, this led to my increasing interest to understand what he means when he describes cubism as pure. It …show more content…
As stated before Apollinaire associated Picasso as an artist who created a form of pure painting. An artwork that represented cubism, especially scientific cubism, is Femme à la mandoline (Fig 1). Not only does this work contain a geometrical aspect in the image’s style, but it also presents how Picasso escapes reality. With Femme à la mandoline, Picasso used mainly straight and angled lines to produce an image that provides subtle hints at a woman playing the mandolin. Between other works, I chose this one because how faint everything is. Also, I believe this piece embodies Apollinaire’s point about new artists and how their works reject the previous rules associated with art. Especially since it lacks a clear subject and only the title helps discern what the image depicts. The only notable elements that I distinguished are the mandolin and an arm. These parts reside in the bottom half of the image; two short brown lines indicate the woman’s fingers or the mandolin’s strings with two angled line stemming from it. In addition, Picasso constructed the mandolin with curved and straight lines which define its basic shape. But the woman didn’t receive as much attention to me because she doesn’t catch my