1. Cubism
Cubism was the first totally abstract art movement—it broke all the rules artists had followed since the Renaissance

2. Non-representational
Best-known
Non-representational
Like a view through a window, Cubists looked cross-eyed through a kaleidoscope, suggesting their feelings through neutral color and geometric forms.

3. Cubism: A Cross-Eyed Look at the Modern World
Bunch of lines and planes and dabs of color
But entitled: Still Life with Fruit Bowl
Joke?
Appear indecipherable—after a little looking, they do make since
Shook the art world like Einstein’s theory of relativity
Tried to create a new language of representation, a new way of seeing things

4. How it All Began Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Avant garde painter in Paris (1907)
Braque is credited with starting first
Principle influence was African art and Paul Cezanne
Picasso was working through his Blue and Rose Periods (tonality of Symbolists)

5. Building Blocks of Form
Emphasized geometric elements
You know a sphere for a body, a cone, a neck; a block for a head.
African masks—expressive—iconic

6. La Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907 Picasso
—ugliest painting ever(use to keep a blanket over it in his studio)
—considered the first cubist painting
—tendency toward abstraction
—5 naked prostitutes two which have African Masks

7. Braque Road Near L’Estaque (1908) —like Rocky Horror Picture Show
—they started working together
—two mountains roped togeterh.
—their paintings started to look alike
—they even stopped signing them for awhile
—art historians even have trouble today

8. Two Phases
Analytical—artist tried to depict a thing from many angles at once
Synthetic—builds up a picture from a combination of abstract signs and visual elements (like a collage)

9. Picasso (Analytical)
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)

10. Picasso—Synthetic The Three Musicians (1921)
—no attempt to replicate actual visual appearance of a scene
—arbritary shapes and colors
—two dimensional building blocks

11. Invention of Collage —practice of adding real stuff from the world
—they added sand, rope, anything short of roadkill

12. Picasso’s Collage
1912
used old wallpaper, fake wood graining, colored papers
(in the other paintings he glued imitation chair caning to the canvass)

13. Fernand Leger
real objects onto the canvas

14. Cubism: the mother of all modernist styles
Cubism: change the way art was made and ushered in the notions of a strict art, art for art’s sake, and modern art.
Ryaonnism
Futurism
Expressionism
Cubo-Futurism
Vorticism
Divisionism
Constructivism
De Stijl
Orphism
Suprematism

15. More next time
–Johnny Appleseed