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.