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Phillip Absolon: ³Cassie thinking about Cubism´

Values and Characteristics of Cubism
"Cubists perceive reality through intuitive vision of the mind rather than through
reasoned logic of the senses. They portray conceptual reality with techniques of form
that manifest cubist concepts of time, space, and motion intertwined with four
aesthetic concerns: dissociation of the elements of the object, simultaneity,
relationship of the parts to the whole and the whole to its parts, and the integrity of the
object." Jeff Toomer, Cubist Poet

Pablo Picasso (Real) Pablo Picasso (Cubed)

Juan Gris
The Origins of Cubism
Late 19th-Early 20th : European artists such as Pablo Picasso,
George Braque, discover and draw from African Tribal, Native
American, and Micronesian Art«

÷raque meets Picasso through a mutual friend, Guillaume

Apollinaire, Cubist friendship develops«
Paul Cezzane: (1839-1906)

‡Šrench artist that bridged the gap

between Cubism and Impressionism
‡Picasso and ÷raque looked up to him
and followed his theories closely:

³All natural forms can be reduced to

spheres, cones and cylinders. One
must begin with these basic, simple
elements, and then one will be able to
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Prominent Cubist Artists

Picasso (1881-1973)
Juan Gris George Braque
(1887-1927) (1882-1963)
Political/Social Messages in Cubism

Picasso:Guernica: Protesting the horrors of the Guernica

Bombings in the Spanish Civil War

Nazi Germany: Nazi party censors most of Cubist/Abstract

paintings in fear of having unwanted messages being spread,
and so most art was destroyed † Ironic because Hitler was a
horrible artist.
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þhe painting that marked the beginning of the
Cubist mode.
—Guernica´ Pablo Picasso
George Braque —Violin and Candlestick´
Juan Gris: Synthetic cubist —The Guitar"
 ³Head of a Woman´±Pablo
Picasso

³Walking Woman´- ³Head of Géricault´-

Alexander Archipenko Jacques Lipchitz

Cubist Sculpture.
 Xculptures

‡ Purpose: þo reveal the true structure of objects,

using geometrical shapes and designs.
‡ Originated in Paris, 1909.
‡ ³Head of a Woman´- Picasso, is known
sculpture.
‡ Reflection of Analytical Cubism: strip away
illusionist detail, revealing form using µfound
objects¶
 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
³Šernande Olivier´ ³Mandolin and Clarinet´
 Pablo Picasso

‡ ÷orn October 25th, 1881

‡ Created more than 20,000 works of art
‡ Considered the greatest artist of the 20th century
‡ One of the original three founders of Cubism
(Georges ÷raque, Guillaume Apollinaire)
‡ Moved Cubism into the Realist and Xurrealist
style
La Grue 19.1 Million UX
 Marcel uchamp

‡ Šrench ada Artist

‡ Xmall but very
controversial output, on
Avant- Garde art.
‡ Covered many art styles
‡ Xculpture created new
styles µKinetic Art¶ and
µReady Made Art¶
‡ Changed the use of sculptures
and revolutionized cubist
sculpture.
‡ Now use of everyday objects.

÷icycle Wheel
µKinetic Art¶
 Jacques Lipchitz
‡ Šrench sculptor who was
born in Russia in 1891.
‡ Was the founders of
Cubist Xculptures along
with Picasso.
‡ Moved his sculpting into
a realist style
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 Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko
‡ Russian- American sculptor, born
In Kyviv
‡ Created a style that was based of
concavities/ negative space.
‡ þaught in Paris, ÷erlin, and New
York, conducted a school in NYC.
Medrano Walking Woman
House of the
÷lack Madonna

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‡ Cubist Architecture has its home in Prague, Czech
Republic
‡ Purpose is to embody human spirits¶ hardships and
the triumphs over them.
‡ Grew out of sentiment for a national identity after
World War I and formation of Czechoslovakia
‡ þhe leaders were Pavel Janák, Josef Gom
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 Pavel Janák (1882-1956)
‡ Czech modern architect who
incorporated cubism into
buidlings
‡ Xtudied under Otto Wagner
‡ Šather/ theoretician role
‡ Known for building less but
thinking more
Palace Adria,
Prague
 Josef Gočár (1880-1945)
‡ One of the three founders of
cubism in architecture
‡ Joined Janak and Chochol in
creating the Prague Art
Workshops
‡ Professor at the Academy of
Šine Arts
‡ Into Rondocubism after WWI
3- Replica of the µHouse of the ÷lack Madonna¶
 Josef Chochol (1880-1956)
‡ Xtudied under Wagner, met Janak
‡ Was a member of Mames union of
Šine Arts until, three of them left
for Cubism.
‡ Later, abandoned Cubism and
became active in politics
‡ Šounded organizations that included
architecture and politics
House in Vyšehrad, Czechloslovakia Epitome of Cubist
Architecture
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Abstract Art
-Departure from realism

-No basis in reality

-Concerned with the unconscious of the

mind

-Nothing recognizable

-Came from Cubism

-Geometric abstraction

-Composed of different movements

Origins of Abstract

- Came from Cubism and Fauvism

- These other art forms later became recognized as forms of

abstract

- Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism all led to

Abstract art


 
Jackson Pollock - American Artist
- Famous for splatter painting
- Struggled with alcoholism
- Strongest influence in
American Abstract movement

Number 1, 1950
Piet Mondrian
- Studied at Amsterdam Academy of
Fine Arts
- Looked to cubism for something
new
- As his art progressed it became
brighter and more abstract

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Wassily Kandinsky (1886-1944)
- Central artist in the
development of 20th century
abstract art

- Geometric shapes became

more prevalent in his art

- Created the first purely

abstract arts

- Taught at the Bauhaus

Š
 1914
Abstract Sub-Movements

‡Futurism in Italy/Russia

‡Bauhaus School

‡US Abstraction

‡Geometric Abstraction
 Šilippo Marinnetti

Abstract:Italian Futurism.
 ÷eginnings
‡ Šounder was Šilippo Marinetti with Š




1909.
‡ ³We want no part of it, the past, we the young and
strong futurists´
‡ Anything that was new, had a root and tie to futuristic
tendencies (i.e. painting, clothing, religion, cooking,
writing). Ideas rejected everything old.

³Xpeed and
Xound´
Giancomo ÷alla
 þies to Cubism
‡ Cubist art was considered part of the futurism movement
because of its ingenuity, use of shapes and designs and
the abstract works that came during the time period.

³þhe Cyclist´ ±Natalia

Gonchorova
 Vladimir
Mayakovsky

Abstract:Russian Futurism.
 ÷eginnings

‡ Russian Šuturism was

begun as a literature and
visual arts movement
‡ Coincided with the Russian
Revolution but ended
around 1917.
‡ Cubism heavily used in
Russia.
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 Šeelings of Šuturism
‡ Wanted to overthrow everything that was old
‡ In Russia, they even blocked Marinnetti when he came
to see the Russia Šuturist movement.
‡ Šeelings of not owing the past anything and being solely
for the present.

Russia Šuturist
propaganda
 Šuturism¶s Application to UX
‡ Šocused on fast paced society, big buildings,
faster cars, better technology.
‡ Our day and age, we are Šuturists, constantly
pushing for better, faster, stronger, longer with
emphasis placed on us and not the past
generation.
Abstract:Bauhaus (Germany)
- Kandinsky taught there
- Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919
- Became its own movement
- Very influential place for Modern Art
Applications:
Cubist/Abstract infused architecture--precursor to modern
architecture, industrial design
Abstract in the US

- Jackson Pollock

- Period of Censorship in United States

- Abstract deemed apolitical and therefore acceptable

- New York School- informal group of artists and poets

Geometric Abstraction

Mathematics ³Composition #10

±Piet Mondrian
Intense coloring

Geometric
components: Pure
Cubism

þesseracts/Mosaics Kazimir
Malevich
³÷lack Xquare´
 Where can you see Cubism and Abstract
today?!? Home
Modern Architecture Šurnishings
esign/þechnology

Šashion
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LINKS

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cubism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art#Music
http://www.artmovements.co.uk/abstractexpressionism.htm
cubism in soviet propaganda
http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/propaganda.htm
http://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/abstract-art/page/2/
http://www.arthistoryguide.com/bauhaus.aspx