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Cubism

Cubism. Began in 1907 by Picasso and Georges Braque Dedicated “to the simplification of painting”. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, The Maids of Avignon, 1907. Painting that began the cubist movement Influenced by African masks

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Cubism

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  1. Cubism • Began in 1907 by Picasso and Georges Braque • Dedicated “to the simplification of painting”

  2. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,The Maids of Avignon, 1907 • Painting that began the cubist movement • Influenced by African masks • As he painted, the relationship of shapes and colors became more important than the figures

  3. Mt. St. Victoire • Used Paul Cezanne’s ideas that all shapes in nature are based on the sphere, cone and cylinder

  4. Picasso and Braque carried the idea further to paint three dimensional objects from many different angles at one time They believed that there “was no one fixed view of nature”

  5. Woman Seated

  6. Friendship

  7. Analytical Cubism • Big, flat shapes broken down even further to small shards in monochromatic colors • Features broken apart and reassembled • Shattering pattern of geometric shapes • No interest in perspective • Uses neutral colors

  8. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910

  9. Girl with a Mandolin

  10. Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

  11. Aficionado

  12. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

  13. Guitar Player, 1910

  14. Accordionist, 1911

  15. Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, 1912

  16. One critic called it, “An explosion in a shingle factory” • A series of movements stopped in successive stages of action • Like stop-action or strobe light photography

  17. Blue 6B pencil is for scribbling on the back of your image to transfer • Use a regular pencil or a colored pencil to trace the image onto your final paper • You can use a regular pencil to fracture your image • Use the gray Ebony pencil for creating value

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