2. Scientific Advances
• Theory of the atom introduced by Albert
Einstein, Max Planck, Neils Bohr
• Einstein's Theory of Relativity
• Bohr’s Quantum Theory
• As a result, all of the old theories of space,
matter and time were shattered
6. “Cubism is like standing at a
certain point on a mountain and
looking around. If you go higher,
things will look different; if you
go lower again they will look
different. It is a point of view.”
- Jacques Lapchitz
7. How Cubism got it’s name
• French art critic Louis
Vauxcelles said that
geometric shapes in
Braque's piece “House at L’
Estaque” looked like cubes.
12. Cezanne Influence
“Everything in nature takes its
form from the sphere, the
cone, and the cylinder.”-
Cezanne
-Cezanne focused on the colors and the
shapes that stood out in nature
13. Picasso & Léger
• Pablo Picasso
•Fernand Léger
•1881 – 1973 •1881 – 1955
• Spanish painter, sculptor, • French painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramist, and stage filmmaker, designed mosaics
designer • Involved in Cubism, Tubism,
• Died at the age of 91 and Modernism
• Cofounder of Cubism • Used mechanical forms
20. Analytical Cubism 1909-1912
• More intellectual stage of cubism
• Cubist painters broke down the surface of
objects into basic geometrical shapes
• Monochromatic (greys, blacks, browns)
• Used planes, facets, and angles to create
multiple perspectives
21. 3 principals of facets
• Painted on a slight angle, vertical to canvas
surface
• Overlap and cast shadows over each other
• Edges dissolve, allowed facets to leak into
each other (influenced by Cezanne)
50. Orphism 1910-1913
• Also called orphic cubism
• Short-lived movement
• Type of colorful abstract art
• Founded by Robert Delaunay in response to
monochromatic style of Analytic Cubism
• Used overlapping planes of contrasting colors
(Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colors)
51. Orphism
• Felt color was aesthetically powerful, and
could show movement
• Used recognizable subject matter
• Relied on color to show meaning
• End before WWI
54. Synthetic Cubism 1912-1914
• 2nd stage
• Wide variety of color
• Papier Colle introduced
-Pieces of newspaper, cloth and other materials
• Mixed sand and sawdust into paint to give it
texture
• Image was built up from new elements and
shapes
75. Analytic v. Synthetic
Analytic Synthetic
• 1st stage • 2nd stage
• Monochromatic • Variety of color
• “analyzed” subject, broke • Papier Colle introduced
down into fragments and • Image built up from new
re-assembled them elements
76. Beyond 1914
• Many other artists took up the cubist
movement
• Led to new art movements like abstract
expressionism and surrealism
• Influenced sculpture, architecture, and
literature
• Movement peaked in 1915’s and by 1920’s
severed off into several different movements
77. Summary
• Picasso & Braque pioneers of movement
• Broke down images into geometric shapes
• 2 major phases
-Analytic (monochromatic)
-Synthetic(colorful & papier colle)
- First abstract form of art