Scenography III: Project #5

1. of the 20th century

2. Background Information
• Originated in Paris
• Roughly 1908
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
– Robert Delaunay
– Marcel Duchamp (1912)
Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque

3. Emergence
• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)
• Picasso’s way of representing three-
dimensional images as a two-dimensional
design
• Viewed by Georges Braque; together they
formulated Cubism (1908)

4. Ideas and Principles
• Rejection of naturalistic depictions
• Use of shapes and forms abstracted from the
conventionally perceived world
• Method of dissecting subject forms and laying
them across a canvas
• Entirely different way to represent an image

5. Visual Characteristics
• Multiple viewpoints of different features
• Indistinct spaces
• Use of shapes to create an image

6. Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon
1907
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CijcaA9yq58/TK91dHmunJI/AAAAAAAAHhQ/rhg6sm8-
92w/s1600/Les+Demoiselles+D'Avignon.jpg

7. Georges Braque
The Portuguese
1911
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/
aton/3260images/braquepor
tuguese.jpg

8. Robert Delaunay
Champs de Mars or
The Red Tower
1911
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_73F4O85X99I/Se1b3CttR
NI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Npg6kqAD0_c/s400/Delanauy_Por
tfolio2.jpg

9. Pablo Picasso http://www.art-
Still Life with Chair-Caning 1912 it.asia/p/admin_ed_contri7/NJw1BKXqFT7PSDE3QZCr/5.jpg

10. Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass
1913
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y9JCP1wazVo/RsC-
ejAyjPI/AAAAAAAAHoc/pr7Sv3nlMvI/s400/b_n_p_g.jpg

11. Source
• Kleiner, Fred, and Christin Mamiya. Gardner’s
Art through the Ages: The Western
Perspective. Belmont: Thomson
Wadsworth, 2006. Print.