Transitions in cubist work

The above colour board shows transition in the colour palette of the artists (during cubism). In the initial stage more of dull colours were used and the colour palette of the artists was limited .While in the later stages, artists used a variety of bright colours.Also,I have used - black,grey,white to hi-light this gradual change in the colour palette. I have shown this gradual change in the colour palette by choosing 3 paintings from different transitional phases of cubism 1)Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 2)The Weeping Woman 3)Violin and checkerboard .So,I have extracted colours from these paintings and repsented in the form of a Colour Board.

                                              

In the material board I have focused on the two stages of cubism .In the initial stage,artists preferred to use oil on canvas . While on the other hand,during the later phase artists had started exploring other materials.Also,they started making collages (distortion)using a variety of 2D and 3D materials.I have divided my board into 2 vertical halves depicting the material culture of the two phases.(artists used random materials at random planes using distortion and abstraction )

Cubism - split into two major phases

Cubism was split into two major phases
 - Analytical phase (1907-1912)
 - Synthetic phase (19012-1914)

ANALYTICAL PHASE

It is the initial phase ,where the artists were more concerned towards breaking the traditional models of representation i.e. abandoned perspective.They turned away realistic modelling of figures.Forms were analysed and fragmented .

It basically,revolved around the changing experience of space, time, movement in the modern world of art.

SYNTHETIC PHASE

During the second phase, artists began to explore the use of foreign objects as abstract signs. Newspapers and other materials like - wood veneer, chair canning, cardboard, corrugated sheet,wallpaper sheets are collaged to the surface of canvas as a sigh of object. It was influential style of art for the later artists (like - JUAN GRIS). Also the palette of the artists was no more confined to a limited number of colours.

Picasso drew pictures but in a different way!

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that.

                                                                                                        - Pablo Picasso 

Cubists wanted to make paintings that reached beyond the rigid geometry of perspective. The Cubists proposed that your sight of an object is the sum of many different views and your memory of an object is not constructed from one angle, but from multiple vanishing points. Cubist painting, paradoxically abstract in form,was an attempt at a more realistic way of seeing forms. It will show you many parts of d subject at one point viewed from different angles,and reconstructed into a composition of -planes

                        -forms

                        -colours  

Most of cubist artworks emphasised in the centre of the canvas, thus they were usually balanced compositions.They use the positive and negative spaces and play artistically with lines and curves, in order to bring out the basic essence of the subject in a completely distorted form.

During the winter of 1912-13 Picasso executed a great variety of paper collages.With the new techniques of pasting coloured or printed pieces of paper in the compositions.Pablo and Braque swept away the last vestiges of 3-D space that still remained in their high analytical work. Whereas, in the initial stages all the cubist works were oil on canvas(analytical stage of cubism).

           

CUBISM : The first style of abstract art

                                   

  "Every act of creation is first act of destruction "

                                                             - Cubism

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of early nineteenth century. But how did this term arise ?? You must be wondering what happened on the edge of twentieth century ,which changed the roots of art during that era so drastically.

Let me take you back towards the end of eighteenth century where the value of artists and there works started declining due to the invention of CAMERA. Cameras produced more realistic and quick pictures so they became an alternative for the paintings.Therefore artists started making abstract paintings and applying patchy brush strokes, in order to maintain the value of their art work. 

1. Towards the end of eighteenth century (Paris)a post-impressionist artist Cezanne, wanted to bring back the basic essence of an object which was slowly and gradually lost due to various experiments in the field of art. Cézanne was not primarily interested in creating an illusion of depth in his painting and he abandoned the traditional ways of perspective drawing.
2. PABLO PICASSO and GEORGES BRAQUE are called the fathers of cubism.They further explored  cubism and created a good number of artworks for the same.
3. The french art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term 'CUBISM' after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908.

ABOUT THE BLOG

"Standing at certain point on a mountain and looking around.

if you go higher, things look different ;

if you go lower , again they will look different.

It is a matter of point of view."

My blog is about CUBISM ,which is not a mainstream form of art. It deals with creation of something new by exploring and creating abstract stuff. I am intended towards cubism due to its character of thinking out of the box and from an alternative view point.

This blog basically revolves around cubism i.e. tools and techniques used, material culture, theme, style, etc. Moreover, you will come to know about how the term CUBISM came into being.