1、PABLO PICASSOandCUBISM12/15/2022PABLO PICASSOPABLO PICASSO(1881 1973)Picasso was the most famous living artist.He was born in Spain.He lived to the age of 92.He worked mostly in France.He showed exceptional diversity in his work.He was a painter,graphic artist,sculptor,stage set designer and much mo
2、re.Picassos career was a patchwork of different art styles.12/15/2022CUBISM CUBISM(1906 1915)He created an art style called Cubism around 1907.He simplified form.Presenting reality as composition of shapes.Stripped it down to essentials.Broke it down into blocks of color.These artists were called Cu
3、bists.He experimented painting portraits,still life,landscapes and sculpture in this art style.Self Portrait(1907)12/15/2022Three women(1908)He tried to break up the visual world into blocks of color squares,triangles,cubes,cones etc.Restructured the subject into angular planes.Key element of his st
4、yle Cubist geometry was his own creation.This marked the real beginning of Abstract art.12/15/2022Friendship(1908)He placed his outlines and areas of color boldly,making no attempt to flesh out an appearance of a living person.He was stylizing it into something that was less and less naturalistic.Hi
5、s new approach put an end to the traditional scheme of foreground,middle ground and background and the demarcation of subject and setting.12/15/2022CUBISM-PortraitCUBISM-PortraitWoman with a fan(1909)Queen Isabella(1908)12/15/2022CUBISM-PortraitCUBISM-PortraitFarm woman(1908)Farm woman(1908)12/15/20
6、22CUBISM-PortraitCUBISM-PortraitHead and shoulders of a man(1909)Woman Mandolin(1909)12/15/2022CUBISM Still LifeCUBISM Still LifePitcher and bowls(1908)Green pan and black bottle(1908)12/15/2022CUBISM Still LifeCUBISM Still LifeFruit in a vase(1909)Bread,fruit and table(1908)12/15/2022CUBISM Still L
7、ifeCUBISM Still LifeWine glasses and fruit(1908)Fish and bottles(1908)12/15/2022ANALYTICAL CUBISMANALYTICAL CUBISMPortrait of Ambroise Vollard(1910)The image is dissected or analyzed Lines continued at random Shows the artists skill with playing with the natural image Picture surface resembling frac
8、tured glass Analytical Cubism was called the first phase of Cubism.12/15/2022SYNTHETIC CUBISM SYNTHETIC CUBISM(COLLAGE CUBISM)Still Life with Chair Cane(1912)In 1912 Picasso and a few other artists composed Still life with cut scraps of material.They were the first serious artists to use collage in
9、their work.They incorporated printed text,musical scores,wallpaper,chair caning etc.Collage became a widely used technique since then.Guitar(1913)Charcoal,pencil,ink and pasted paper12/15/2022 Pablo Picasso(1962)Picasso constantly changed his style during his long life.At each phase he opened up new paths which other artists followed.For him CUBISM ended with world war I in 1914.He continued to experiment with many other art styles until the age of 92.12/15/2022
