CubismBy: AbdulRahman Al-Mana 7A

What is Cubism? How did it start?

Cubism started in the 20th Century, by Pablo Picasso and Georges Barque. A cubist artwork is basically broken up and re assembled in an abstract way.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso made many different cubist artworks. Picasso was from Spain, but he lived most of his life in France. One of his paintings that was cubist was the “Dora Maar Au Chat.” If we translate the name from French to English it becomes “Dora Maar with the cat.” Dora Maar was the painter’s lover.

Inspiration of the artwork, and why I like Cubism.

Pablo Picasso was inspired by the African, Micronesian and Native American art. Personally, I like Cubit artworks because the way that the painter captures the person or object from every single angle and breaking it into pieces is really affective, for example, if you have a profile portrait, you might put how the eye looks like from the front.

How is this style of art different from the earlier realistic still life artworks we have looked at and the still life artworks that you have created?

The still life portraits we had to get all the details correctly, and the shading, and making sure it it perfect and very realistic. While in Cubism even a mistake can’t show in there, since we are getting the the object from every angle and putting them on a flat surface.

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubismhttp://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/upload

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_maar_au_chat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso