Curbism: Pablo Picasso And Georges Braques

"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless." (Pablo Picasso) What is cubism? Cubism is essentially the art of creating abstract shapes of three dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface. In cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form rather than portraying objects from one point of view, the artist portrays the subject from various views to represent the subject in a greater context. Cubism was an innovative style of modern art introduced by two remarkable artists, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques; who were joined by other notable artists, Jean Metzinger,
Paul Cezanne is a French painter born during the 19th century and one of the greatest of the postimpressionists, whose work influenced art movements and artists of the 20th century, especially cubism. The geometric form and compressed picture space in his paintings appealed to Braques, who used the techniques in his own work. These artists came to inventing the cubist movement being influenced by the recent discoveries of African, Indonesian, and Indian cultures. Picasso 's Demoiselles d 'Avignon (1907; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) is one of the most significant painting demonstrating the influence Cezanne had on their art work. Picasso had been influenced by African Art during one of his visits in the Palais du Trocadero in Paris in May or June 1907. Cubism was broken down into three momentous phases; Facet, analytical and synthetic cubism. The earliest phase of Cubism, known as Facet Cubism, led artists to break the object and its space into large facets; each symbolizing a different angle of view but connected to the surface of the canvas. From time to time, these facets would overlap creating an object through
Before 1912, color was almost nonexistent and the artists would not place emphasis on color; monochromatic schemes which include hues of tan, brown, gray, cream, green, or blue in order to not distract the viewer from the primary interest. According to Sabrine Rewald from The Metropolitan Museum of Art , "Whereas, in Analytic Cubism, the small facets of a dissected or "analyzed" object are reassembled to evoke that same object, in the shallow space of Synthetic Cubism—initiated by the papiers collés–large pieces of neutral or colored paper themselves allude to a particular object, either because they are often cut out in the desired shape or else sometimes bear a graphic element that clarifies the association." The artists that took part in the history of synthetic cubism were aware of current events, such as the second world war, these events were represented and influenced numerous art