5. Paul Cézanne
• “Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the
sphere and the cone.”
• Avoiding depth
• Multiple viewpoints
• Different planes
• Reducing forms
7. Historical Contexts
• “This strangeness was what we wanted to
make people think about because we were
quite aware that our world was becoming
very strange and not exactly reassuring” –
Picasso
• Influence of WWI
• Duration, Fourth Dimension, occult,
alchemy, technological innovations
8.
9. Characteristics
• Emphasize the two dimensionality of the
canvas
• Untraditional perspective
• Does not copy nature
• Still Lifes
• Type of realism
• Overlapping planes
17. Partnership
• Braque introduced to Picasso by
Guillaume Apollinaire
• Braque saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
• Collaboration between 1908 and 1914
• Visited each other’s studios and talked
daily
• Hard to tell some of their works apart
19. Kahnweiler
• Daniel-Henry
Kahnweiler – German
dealer and gallery
owner
• Key part in allowing
Picasso and Braque
to focus on their art
Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Monsieur Kahnweiler
(1910)
20. Analytical Cubism
• Varity in forms
• Open angles
• Center faded into background
• Fragmentation
• Various source of lighting
• Few colors
28. Breakup
• Braque went to serve in WWI in 1914
• Braque suffered head injury and was
temporarily blind
• Braque and Picasso never worked again
29. Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Similarities to Founders
• Worked with Kahnweiler
• Used basic techniques of Cubism
• Subject was still life
• Went through all the stages of Cubism
30. Differences from Founders
• Severe and Classical
• More Theoretical
• Light regains importance
• Starting point of paintings were abstract
compositions
• Color had a descriptive role
32. Salon Artists
• Exhibited their works in the Salon des
Indépendants and the Salon d’ Automne
• Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le
Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, and Albert Gleizes
• Du cubisme by Metzinger and Gleizes
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Events surrounding cubism
Experimentation
Talk about specific influences
Ingres
Followed Picasso because of previous paintingTalk about cezanne
Dedication to Cezanne (refer to tabs)
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Apollinare (poet) and KahnweilerKaylaPut quote about mountineering, if it looks good,They did not put their signatures
Different Views between artists-Picasso believed in characteristics of humans-Braque saw (humans) as objects for compositionAlso talk about how they saw eachother everyday, oftentimes you could not tell the two artists’ paintings apart.
Picasso magnetized with attracting forces compelling elements of pictorial space to center of compositionBraque pulled apart and fragmentation
Refer to book: tabs on pages
High and low artCame from Analytical cubism-switched their views because analytical cubism was becoming too abstract, brought reality back into their paintings to assert that it is REALSIM Braque believed color and object were separate where Picasso did notOpposite of Analytical because it is more about the process of building the image up, instead of disecting the objectCollage and Papiercolles refer to notes about how people did not find it applicableBraque put a lot of emphasis on materials, and often mixed sand and other materials (sawdust ash tobacco) to create an interesting textureRejected photographic illusionism, put real life instead
First collageIm
First did paper sculptures to lead to papiercollesAddition of colorFirst papiercolle
AndreaNever believed in cubism hermeticism. (adherence to a belief)Believed he was a realist
More concrete (no longer experimentation)Talk about Metzinger and Gleize here , and how they first gained public acclaim for Cubism the movementThey were disciples of picasso and Braque…
