| |
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, and later joined by Juan Gris, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Fernand Léger that revolutionized paintings and sculptures, throughout the world. The movement had inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Cubism has three phases- Pure Cubism, Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism. Paul Cezanne is considered as the father of Cubism. His theory of solid geometric form demonstrated that everything falls under Solid Geometric’ forms (plate 4A). The basics of Platonic Solids became the grammar of Cezanne’s creativity. Picasso and Braque executed Cezanne’s theory through their paintings which is called Cubistic work. The art historian Douglas Cooper states that Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne "…were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907".
Plate 5A Pablo Picasso, Guernica |
|
|
|
(Source:https://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=picasso%27s+bull+head&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_q
f.&bpcl=40096503&biw=1318&bih=600&um=1&ie=UT8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=jEHQU
F-Of8BoisrAeCrYHgAQ ; December 18, 2012)
(Plate5C:http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Ancient%20African%20tribal%20Sculpture&um=1&ie
=UTF8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=kSfbUOOTKMjJrAfjxoGAAw&biw=1325&bih=549&sei=
mCfbULDTNoWrrAej74HoDA ; December 26, 2012)
Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso were fascinated and inspired by the simplicity of tribal art of Africa (plate 5C). Characteristically during the Cubist period use of colour became limited while the linear quality became stronger and prominent. Picasso’s Cubism (plate 4B) had prominent line, hard-edge and relatively flat surface treatment. Similarly Braque’s paintings (plate 4C) look almost monochromatic and hard-edged surface contour. This begins the new era of strong linear quality that has strong influence in the future design.
|
