pablo Picasso
When we think of Picasso we think of abstract faces and forms. People who do not like art use Picasso as an example of why Modern art has lost its way. They might say "It looks like a child has done it" or "I could do better with my eyes closed" - and they would be half right. Picasso spent a lifetime questioning art and western aesthetics traditions. When he was fourteen he painted this image above of his sisters first communion. He could have and spent the rest of his life painting the world as he saw it and continuing the traditions he had learnt - becoming an esteemed member of the Academy. However, airplanes were in the air, the first cars were on the street and a new century was on the horizon. Like any self respecting fourteen year old he wanted to make a difference, to rebel, to question and be remembered. So he helped to reinvent and revolutionize art - that is why we remember him.
'The critics say I draw like a child. When I was a child I drew like Raphael. It took me my whole life to draw like a child.'
Pablo Picasso
- See more at: http://thedelightsofseeing.blogspot.com/2011/03/cubism-joiners-and-multiple-viewpoint.html#sthash.E28W9E5r.dpuf
'The critics say I draw like a child. When I was a child I drew like Raphael. It took me my whole life to draw like a child.'
Pablo Picasso
- See more at: http://thedelightsofseeing.blogspot.com/2011/03/cubism-joiners-and-multiple-viewpoint.html#sthash.E28W9E5r.dpuf
Cubism 1907-1922
Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It is known for begin stylized, distorted with the use of geometric shapes. The Cubist painters rejected the idea that art should copy nature or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. They wanted instead to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. So they reduced and fractured objects into geometric forms, and then realigned these within a shallow, relieflike space. They also used multiple or contrasting vantage points.
cubism influenced the arts & the world as we know it
Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. Cubism initiated liberation from formal concepts and traditional practices.
ART MOVEMENTs THAT FOLLOWED CUBISM include dada & surrealism
dada
(1915 - 1922) Born out of negative reaction to the horrors of the First World War, Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media.
surrealism
A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."
Literature was inspired by the concept of multiple perspectives...
The influence of Cubism extended to other artistic fields outside painting and sculpture such as poetry and novels. Similar to the way painters would paint from multiple perspectives, novelists began to narrate from multiple perspectives.
William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the Cubist mode. The novel features narratives of the diverse experiences of fifteen characters; when taken together these narratives produce a single cohesive body.
William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the Cubist mode. The novel features narratives of the diverse experiences of fifteen characters; when taken together these narratives produce a single cohesive body.
Picasso influenced Hockney's Joiners (1980's)...
HOCKNEY'S JOINERS INFLUENCED MANY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTs ...
Daniel Crooks - 'Portrait #1 (Self), Portrait #2 (Chris), Portrait #3 (Chris)' 2007
The geometric quality of cubism continues to influence art today...
Szymon Roginski
...as well as arcitechture
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