CubismCubism was the beginning of modern art whereas it was also a remarkable point for numerous of different art movements including Futurism (1909-14), Orphism (1910-1913), Vorticism (1914-1915), Russian Constructivism (1919-1932), and Dada (1916-1924).
Cubism to be known as the new style of painting that has been invented by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). They both had created the two biggest remarkable events at the beginning of Cubism. In 1907, Picasso Pablo’s painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, has been brought to Paris from his home as well as in summer 1908, George Braque’s landscape paintings brought up an idea of architectural forms, where things in the piece were rendered as shaded cubes and pyramids. Despite the fact that they both were the first two artists had the Cubism style, the term "Cubism" was only officially created by the French art critic, Louis Vauxcelles in 1908, when he was described the geometric shaped used as "bizarreries cubiques". In the years before and during WWI, Picasso and Braque were living in Montmarte, France so they both regularly and cooperatively set up meetings to discuss about each other process. Due to the outbreak of WWI, the Cubist artists physically separated; whereas many of the recruited into the war while many others tended to depart Paris, attempt to avoid the battle itself. From here, it was literally stopped the style to developing progressively. |
Famous ArtistsUpon the two key players, there are also many other famous artists whom closely associated with Cubism movement including:
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Time Period1907-1914, these are the 7 years period which Cubism occurred.
Cubism is traditionally classified into 3 stages:
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RuleCubism abandoned the Renaissance Naturalism, where the aiming of the painting is to make everything in the art piece to be seen from a certain point of view, which is also relied in specific on one “fundamental assumption”. In additional, Cubism has its own rule where it used a new way of representing the art piece in the three-dimensional reality in which reflected the modern age.
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ManifestoIn 1912, the Cubist manifesto was published in a book called Du “Cubisme”, which was written the two Cubist artists, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. The book introduced the concept and also exemplified the theoretical frammeworks of Cubism by the many famous Cubist artists:
Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay ,Jacques Lipchitz, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jean Metzinger, Gleizes Metzinger, Paul Cézanna, Francis Picabia, Marvel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain; Marie Laurencin. The Cubists, according to the 1912 manifesto written by Gleizes and Mtezinger, revealed: "According to them, to illuminate is to reveal; to colour is to specify the mode of revelation. They call luminous that which strikes the imagination, and dark that which the imagination has to penetrate." |
Resources:
Movement: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-cubism.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_manifesto#Cubist_Manifesto_1912
http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/ImagesCrawford/education/Cubism%20and%20Ireland.pdf
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_%22Cubisme%22
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Courses/Spring02/104/cubismFAQ.html
Artist: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-picasso-pablo.htm
Movement: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-cubism.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_manifesto#Cubist_Manifesto_1912
http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/ImagesCrawford/education/Cubism%20and%20Ireland.pdf
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_%22Cubisme%22
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Courses/Spring02/104/cubismFAQ.html
Artist: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-picasso-pablo.htm