Cubism movement1/9/2024 The End of Cubism and Its Lasting Influence Still Life with Bordeaux Bottle’, Juan Gris, 1919, via Ĭubism as an art movement came to an end with the beginning of the First World War. It was also the beginning of Juan Gris’ career as a famous Cubist. This concept called “simultaneousness” became one of the most important elements of art from this period which became known as Aesthetical Cubism. Castle at La Roche Guyon, George Braque, 1909, via Met Museum In this phase, a new understanding of painting light was born and the classical separation of painting a foreground, middle ground, and background were left behind. The first official phase of Cubism lasted from 1908 to 1912 and is mainly characterized by the use of light colors and by displaying a subject from multiple perspectives. Today, Aesthetical and Synthetic Cubism are seen as the two main subsets of Cubism.Īesthetical Cubism Brick Factory at Tortosa, Pablo Picasso, 1909, via Wikimedia Commons In 1912, however, the art movement and way of painting changed, giving birth to Synthetic Cubism. In the early years of Cubism, Picasso and Braque developed an aesthetical form of Cubism. The aim was to present the inner life of subjects and objects versus representing things as our eyes see them. Placing elements in a multi-dimensional form would capture multiple perspectives from different angles. Cubism abandoned that traditional technique for flattened, geometric subjects and objects. With realism, artists would paint scenes as they actually looked, with only one perspective and from one viewpoint. Regardless, they’re all part of the movement and brought a personal touch to Cubism and its history.Ĭubism helps achieve multiple perspectives Portrait of Picasso, Julien Gris, 1912, Art Institute Chicago However, while Gris was a theorist who always wanted to develop a rational system for Cubism, Picasso always rejected a theoretical approach to Cubism. George Braque and Pablo Picasso, photograph by Lee Miller, 1954, via National Galleries of Scotland He called works of Braque “bizarries cubiques” or cubic oddities.īesides Braque and Picasso, Juan Gris was also an important representative of Cubism, as well as Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Delaunay who were at the forefront of Orphism (an offshoot of Cubism). Cubism can be first seen in Braque’s painting Viaduct at L’Estaque from 1908.Īrt critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the word ‘Cubism’. Braque, at this point, had already been part of the Fauvist movement with his polychromatic paintings of stylized landscapes and seascapes. In the same year, Pablo Picasso met the French painter and sculptor George Braque. Viaduct a L’Estaque, George Braque, 1908, via Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is one of the most important works of Picasso’s African period and illustrates elements of Cubism: light colors, a break from classical Chiascuro, as well as different perspectives of the same subject, all in one painting. The large oil painting portrays five nude prostitutes, equipped with masculine features and elements of African masks, while the female bodies are based on geometrical forms. His painting is considered proto-cubist and represents one of the first works of the Cubist movement. The Beginnings of Cubism Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907, via MoMAĪs a progressive reaction to Henri Matisse’s painting Le bonheur de vivre, Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon ( The Young Ladies of Avignon ) in 1907.
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