Treat Nature By The Cylinder, The Sphere The Cone Analysis

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.” is a famous saying Paul Cézanne wrote for the next generation (Wikipedia, Paul Cézanne 2015). Without him, we can not talk about Picasso or Matisse because he was the one to have moved on from impressionism to post-impressionism and broke classic styles of art forms to lead the next generation into modern art. First of all Cézanne took away the idea to take the light transition into a drawing. Day and night, by minutes and hours, with the sun, clouds and rain, the light changes the color of nature and objects. Of course we would not be able to see things without light, but he thought impressionism was swayed too much on the matter. A drawing he wanted to create was solid and autonomous reconstruction. In other words, …show more content…
In doing so, Picasso had to create something different from both impressionism and post- impressionism. Multi view images are introduced here as a beginning of cubism. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is said to be Picasso’s first cubism painting but cubism style was already seen in the work “two nude women (figure 4)”. You can clearly see the similarities in the two. Even though the models are females working in a brothel in Barcelona, they all have some eland of African taste, the face, the hair, color of the skin and exaggerated fat and masculine bodies. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, however, more of a multi angle combing technique is used. The third lady from the left has her leg drawn from the back and from the front at the same time. Eyes, noses, mouths and foreheads, many of the body parts are of multi angle combination. Cézanne’s pieces are chamfered to create the cubic atmosphere but cubism emphasized on multiple view angle combination to create the objects’ stereoscopic features (The Collection, Pablo Picasso