Thursday, December 2, 2010

Cubism

Cubism


(the first style of abstract art)


Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Factory, Horta de Ebbo (oil on canvas, 1909)
Philadelphia Museum of Art


A non-objective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.


Cubism Notes

- Cubism was invented around 1907 in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

- Cubism was the first abstract style of modern art.


- A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows you many views of a subject at one time.


- The Cubists introduced collage into painting.


- The Cubists were influenced by art from other cultures, particularly African masks.


- There are two distinct phases of the Cubist Style: Analytical Cubism (pre 1912) and Synthetic Cubism (post 1912)
Cubism influenced many other styles of modern art including Orphism, Futurism, Vorticism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Expressionism.


(Source from http://artfactory.com)

Cubism?

I think, cubism is a creative activities. Because It is looking at things from a different direction than only one kind of looking at thing like a fixed point. So I can feel the artist's personality and freedom in the cubism painting.

Cubism has attractions like a Free perspective and form of art in a large space!!!




2 comments:

  1. this information easy to be learn. smart way to explain what is cubism. I think you can put more information and put who else the artist from this art movement.

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  2. Nice explain. but u also can add some idea about how u look at this

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