Pablo Picasso

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Cubism

Grade 4

Guernica

ABSTRACT ART

CUBISM- Cubism, an abstract movement in art, developed in the early 1900's.

It is based on the theory that objects should be captured by showing multiple points of view simultaneously.

Forms are simplified and broken apart into planes, then reassembled in an abstract form emphasizing geometric shapes. The planes are sometimes tilted by means of shading.

Blues

Period

Rose

Period

Cubism

Period

The Old Guitarist

Garçon à la pipe

Dora Maar

Picasso’s Periods

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in

a small town in southern Spain

His father was a painter who taught art

Picasso didn’t believe that his teachers at the Royal Academy were teaching him the right way, so he made art his own way.

Picasso created more than 20,000 works of art in his lifetime. In 1913, at The Armory Show in NY he introduced the new style of cubism. Picasso's "Girl with a

Mandolin"

Picasso-Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 234 cm W x 244 cm H, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Considered the first cubist artwork,

The painting depicts five naked prostitutes in a brothel

Their figures are composed of flat planes rather than rounded volumes, their eyes are lopsided, and the two women at the right have masks for heads.

The space, which should recede, comes forward in jagged shards, like broken glass. In the still life at the bottom, a piece of melon slices the air like a scythe.

Guernica 1937, oil on canvas, 7.77 m W x 3.5 m H, Prado Museum, Madrid.

symbolic painting of the horrors of war

On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated against the civilian population of a little village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.

Georges Braque (1882-1963) Country- France Movements-. Cubism

Major Style and Contribution to Art

One of the fathers of cubism, he worked closely with Picasso in the early years.

Famous for still life painting

Interesting Fact- A critic refered to Braques paintings as “bizarreries cubiques” (cubic excentricities), thus the name cubism was formed.

Fruit Dish 1908-1909

Characteristics of

Cubism: Abstract

Broken Mirror Effect

Rearranged

Geometric

More than one view

Simplified Shapes

Abstract: does not look like real life

Self Portrait

Broken Mirror Effect:

Braque:

Houses at La Estaque 1909

Three Musicians

Ambroise Vollard by Braque

Rearranged:

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse

Acrobat

Geometric Shapes:

Jacqueline with Crossed Hands

Girl with a Boat

More than one view:

Nusch Éluard

Marie-Therese Walter

Simplified Shapes:

Harlequin

Abstract

Broken Mirror Effect

Rearranged

Geometric

More than one view

Simplified Shapes

Making Cubist Art

1. Draw a few large geometric shapes over the surface of the paper

2. Add a few smaller geometric shapes in between the larger ones

3. Select an object (still life) and begin drawing the various parts in the shapes

4. Color the main object (your still life)

5. Color the background in lighter colors and outline some shapes in black or another dark color.