of the 20th century
Background Information
• Originated in Paris
• Roughly 1908
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
  – Robert Delaunay
  – Marcel Duchamp (1912)



                                     Pablo Picasso


           Georges Braque
Emergence
• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)
• Picasso’s way of representing three-
  dimensional images as a two-dimensional
  design
• Viewed by Georges Braque; together they
  formulated Cubism (1908)
Ideas and Principles
• Rejection of naturalistic depictions
• Use of shapes and forms abstracted from the
  conventionally perceived world
• Method of dissecting subject forms and laying
  them across a canvas
• Entirely different way to represent an image
Visual Characteristics
• Multiple viewpoints of different features
• Indistinct spaces
• Use of shapes to create an image
Pablo Picasso
                                                                         Les Demoiselles
                                                                         d’Avignon
                                                                         1907
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CijcaA9yq58/TK91dHmunJI/AAAAAAAAHhQ/rhg6sm8-
92w/s1600/Les+Demoiselles+D'Avignon.jpg
Georges Braque
 The Portuguese
 1911


http://www.suu.edu/faculty/
aton/3260images/braquepor
tuguese.jpg
Robert Delaunay
                                                  Champs de Mars or
                                                  The Red Tower
                                                  1911
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_73F4O85X99I/Se1b3CttR
NI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Npg6kqAD0_c/s400/Delanauy_Por
tfolio2.jpg
Pablo Picasso                       http://www.art-
Still Life with Chair-Caning 1912   it.asia/p/admin_ed_contri7/NJw1BKXqFT7PSDE3QZCr/5.jpg
Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass
1913
                                     http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y9JCP1wazVo/RsC-
                                     ejAyjPI/AAAAAAAAHoc/pr7Sv3nlMvI/s400/b_n_p_g.jpg
Source
• Kleiner, Fred, and Christin Mamiya. Gardner’s
      Art through the Ages: The Western
      Perspective. Belmont: Thomson
      Wadsworth, 2006. Print.

Cubism presentation

  • 1.
    of the 20thcentury
  • 2.
    Background Information • Originatedin Paris • Roughly 1908 • Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque – Robert Delaunay – Marcel Duchamp (1912) Pablo Picasso Georges Braque
  • 3.
    Emergence • Les Demoisellesd’Avignon (1907) • Picasso’s way of representing three- dimensional images as a two-dimensional design • Viewed by Georges Braque; together they formulated Cubism (1908)
  • 4.
    Ideas and Principles •Rejection of naturalistic depictions • Use of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world • Method of dissecting subject forms and laying them across a canvas • Entirely different way to represent an image
  • 5.
    Visual Characteristics • Multipleviewpoints of different features • Indistinct spaces • Use of shapes to create an image
  • 6.
    Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CijcaA9yq58/TK91dHmunJI/AAAAAAAAHhQ/rhg6sm8- 92w/s1600/Les+Demoiselles+D'Avignon.jpg
  • 7.
    Georges Braque ThePortuguese 1911 http://www.suu.edu/faculty/ aton/3260images/braquepor tuguese.jpg
  • 8.
    Robert Delaunay Champs de Mars or The Red Tower 1911 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_73F4O85X99I/Se1b3CttR NI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Npg6kqAD0_c/s400/Delanauy_Por tfolio2.jpg
  • 9.
    Pablo Picasso http://www.art- Still Life with Chair-Caning 1912 it.asia/p/admin_ed_contri7/NJw1BKXqFT7PSDE3QZCr/5.jpg
  • 10.
    Georges Braque Bottle, Newspaper,Pipe, and Glass 1913 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y9JCP1wazVo/RsC- ejAyjPI/AAAAAAAAHoc/pr7Sv3nlMvI/s400/b_n_p_g.jpg
  • 11.
    Source • Kleiner, Fred,and Christin Mamiya. Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. Print.