Farm woman (1908)
Farm woman (1908)
CUBISM - Portrait
Woman Mandolin (1909)
Head and shoulders of a man (1909)
CUBISM – Still Life
Pitcher and bowls (1908)
Friendship (1908)
CUBISM - Portrait
Head of a woman (1907)
Head of a man (1907)
CUBISM - Portrait
Queen Isabella (1908)
Woman with a fan (1909)
CUBISM - Portrait
CUBISM
(1906 – 1915)
• He created an art style called ‘Cubism’ around 1907. • He simplified form. • Presenting reality as composition of shapes. • Stripped it down to essentials. • Broke it down into blocks of color. • These artists were called ‘Cubists’. • He experimented painting portraits, still life, landscapes and sculpture in this art style.
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910)
SYNTHETIC CUBISM (COLLAGE CUBISM)
• In 1912 Picasso and a few other artists composed Still life with cut scraps of material. • They were the first serious artists to use collage in their work. • They incorporated printed text, musical scores, wallpaper, chair caning etc. • Collage became a widely used technique since then.
PABLO PICASSO and CUBISM
PABLO PICASSO
(1881 – 1973)
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Picasso was the most famous living artist. He was born in Spain. He lived to the age of 92. He worked mostly in France. He showed exceptional diversity in his work. He was a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, stage set designer and much more. • Picasso’s career was a patchwork of different art styles.
CUBISM - Landscape
House and trees (1908)
House in the garden (1908)
ANALYTICAL CUBISM
• The image is dissected or analyzed • Lines continued at random • Shows the artist’s skill with playing with the natural image • Picture surface resembling fractured glass • ‘Analytical Cubism’ was called the first phase of ‘Cubism’.
Self – Portrait (1907)
• He tried to break up the visual world into blocks of color – squares, triangles, cubes, cones etc.
• Restructured the subject into angular planes. • Key element of his style – Cubist geometry was his own creation. • This marked the real beginning of Abstract art. Three women (1908)
• He placed his outlines and areas of color boldly, making no attempt to flesh out an appearance of a living person.
• He was stylizing it into somethinglistic. • His new approach put an end to the traditional scheme of foreground, middle ground and background and the demarcation of subject and setting.
Green pan and black bottle (1908)
CUBISM – Still Life
Bread, fruit and table (1908)
Fruit in a vase (1909)
CUBISM – Still Life
Fish and bottles (1908)
Wine glasses and fruit (1908)