Kubistische periode picasso biography
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A Short Guide to Cubism
Cubism is the fragmentation of the object, the body, the portrait, the still life or the landscape. It is an avant-garde movement, like Fauvism before it. Picasso said in &#;When we did cubism, we had no intention of doing cubism, but only of expressing what was in us&#;.
The movement has it’s origins in Cezanne’s paintings and was initiated in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The influential art critic, Louis Vauxcelles is credited with coining the term ‘Cubism’ after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted at l’Estaque in
These landscapes were reminiscent of Cezanne’s work , who is generally accepted as the first artist to geometrize forms in art. Primitivism also had a marked influence on the Cubist movement. Cubist painters dismissed the concept that art should duplicate nature. They rejected traditional approaches to perspective, instead they fragmented objects into geometric forms so that multiple perspectives of the subject
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This painting dates to one of the most productive and inventive periods of Pablo Picasso&#;s career, a summer stay in the town of Horta dem Ebro (now Horta dem San Juan) in Spain, which lasted, with minor interruptions, from May to September of During these months, Picasso produced a series of landscapes, heads, and still lifes that are among the most highly acclaimed achievements of early Cubism. Picasso&#;s companion, Fernande Olivier, was the model for the series of heads that the artist produced at this time.
In this painting, the contrast between the naturalistic still life in the background and the boldly faceted figure in the foreground illustrates an important stage in Picasso&#;s evolution at the time. A series of still lifes by Picasso that were inspired bygd the art of Paul Cezanne preceded Picasso&#;s powerful probing into the naturlig eller utan tillsats of solid form, which is exemplified here bygd the treatment of the head. bygd vigorously modeling the form eller gestalt in a manner that blatantly disregards th
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In Juan Gris traveled to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and participated in the development of Cubism. Just six years later, Gris too was known as a Cubist and identified by at least one critic as &#;Picasso’s disciple.&#; Gris’s style draws upon Analytic Cubism—with its deconstruction and simultaneous viewpoint of objects—but is distinguished by a more systematic geometry and crystalline structure. Here he fractured his sitter’s head, neck, and torso into various planes and simple, geometric shapes but organized them within a regulated, compositional structure of diagonals. The artist further ordered the composition of this portrait by limiting his palette to cool blue, brown, and gray tones that, in juxtaposition, appear luminous and produce a gentle undulating rhythm across the surface of the painting.
Gris depicted Picasso as a painter, palette in hand. The inscription, &#;Hommage à Pablo Picasso,&#; at the bottom right of the painting demonstrates Gris’s r