Friendship (1908)
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CUBISM - Portrait
Queen Isabella (1908)
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Woman with a fan (1909)
CUBISM - Portrait
Farm woman (1908)
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Farm woman (1908)
• Key element of his style – Cubist geometry was his own creation.
• This marked the real beginning of Abstract art.
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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 something that was less and less naturalistic.
• His new approach put an end to the traditional scheme of foreground, middle ground and background and the demarcation of subject and setting.
CUBISM – Still Life
Bread, fruit and table (1908)
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Fruit in a vase (1909)
CUBISM – Still Life
Fish and bottles (1908)
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Wine glasses and fruit (1908)
‘Cubism’.
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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.
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
Self – Portrait (1907)
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• He tried to break up the visual world into blocks of color – squares, triangles, cubes, cones etc.
• Restructured the subject into angular planes.
stage set designer and much more. • Picasso’s career was a patchwork of different
art styles.
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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.
CUBISM - Portrait
Woman Mandolin (1909)
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Head and sh – Still Life
Pitcher and bowls (1908)
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Green pan and black bottle (1908)
Still Life with Chair Cane (1912)
PABLO PICASSO and
CUBISM
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PABLO PICASSO
(1881 – 1973)
• 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,