Cubism

father being a painter and art teacher helped build Pablo’s background. Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Throughout Pablo’s career, we see many different periods of art such as- the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism, Classical Period, and Surrealism- each period resembled the experiences of his life. Emotion was expressed through each and every one of his works of art. Picasso attended many different fine art schools, spite the fact that he was a poor…

Paul Cézanne was born in 1839 and was a Post-Impressionist French painter. His work contributed to the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new world of art in the 20th century (“Paul Cézanne”, 2016). Cézanne worked on his painting “The Large Bathers” for seven years, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1906. It is often considered Cezanne’s finest work (“The Bathers (Cézanne)”, 2016). Cezanne aimed to disregard current trends and give a…

something new. New styles. New perspectives. New emotions. New art. Art began to take on a modern form and reflected the culture at the time that was shifting from their old ways and adapting new skills and interests. One of the leaders of this shift into Cubism was Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso was a truly talented and instrumental painter, and many repercussions of his entrepreneurship and originality in art are still seen today. Born in 1881 in Spain, he came to be one of the most influential…

Osnat’s art has appeared on TV Drama’s and adverts- an artist recognised in her time. She is a Canadian artist who uses real life and realistic approaches to here abstract form. Being self-taught she show comparison to Picasso’s work in 1907- a form of cubism. She uses parallel lines to define and achieve her aims within the work. She hardly every varies by doing repetitive sequences of imageries, that combine to one magnificent vision. This is the characteristic…

Picasso was traditionally trained by his father, José Ruiz y Blasco, a Spanish painter. A child prodigy that made a name for himself by departing from his traditional training and creating works of art that revolutionized the art world. Picasso’s most famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, broke from the traditional style of the time. The balance of classical paintings can be seen with balance with five figures represented—one in the center of the painting, flanked by two figures on each…

This project discusses the African Mask. The earliest use of the African mask was for rituals and ceremonies and the oldest found mask is from 7000 BC. However, Masks were found older but because of the materials that were used from making the mask included leather and wood, they did not survive to be found. (2) The masks were important during the Paleolithic times. (3) The African masks are an important part of African ceremonies, rituals, initiations, celebration and secret communities. (1)…

Archipenko explores the relationship between negative and positive space in his deconstruction of the female body. Cubism, which interpreted the Theory of Relativity in terms of art, flattened a subject’s many views from different angles into a single plane to incorporate the idea of a fourth dimension: time. He also employs elements of Cubo-futurism, by adopting the forms of Cubism and combining them with the Italian Futurists' representation of movement. In that sense, Archipenko succeeds…

Pablo Picasso: The Greatest Artist of the 20th Century For the astonishing stylistic width and intellectual depth displayed in his artworks, Pablo Ruiz Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of…

He also drew inspiration from Orphism (a type of cubism but pure abstraction and brighter colours), Futurism and Purism (emphasis on the purity of form and rejection of cubism by returning to representing recognisable object), his most common subject in this period was the female nude. His biggest source of inspiration was the influence of Giorgio de Chirico,…

After these two periods Picasso transitioned to one of the most notable stages of his career. The style that Picasso is best known for, Cubism, was first demonstrated in his highly controversial Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907. The work depicts five women morphed and twisted (some might say mutilated) to force viewers to truly explore the idea of perspective. Cubism has often been described as the “breakdown of illusionistic space”, illusionistic space being the commonly accepted method of…