CUBISM “Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.” ~Jacques Lipchitz

Cubism A name suggested by Henri Mattisse in 1909 A non-objective approach to painting Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1906 Pre-Cubist (1906) – emphasizing the process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone) Analytical Cubism (1909-1911) – transpose the three- dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas. Cubist palette was limited to monochromatic scale colors, dominated by grays and browns. Synthetic Cubism (1912-1920s) – focused on the construction (new textures and materials) and not the represented objects in the painting – became more abstract and color expanded to many other colors

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

Pablo Picasso, "Three Musician's", 1921

Pablo Picasso

Popova, Two Figures

Juan Gris (1887-1927) Violin and Glass (oil on canvas, 1915)

Students started by drawing a large, fairly simple image in the center of their paper

Then they cut out a simple shape, which may or may not be somehow related to their chosen subject, out of cardstock.

They traced this shape all over their design in order to break-up or 'fracture' the image. Below you can see this student used a skull for her main subject, and a bone shape to break it up.

Then, using colored pencils, students chose their colors and practiced creating gradations from light to dark- simply vary the pressure of the colored pencil.

Then start coloring each section- change colors when you encounter a line.