7.3 Cubism and Futurism

Cubism

• revolutionary style of painting invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris, during the period 1907-12

• fracture images into geometric forms

• many different views of an object were simultaneously depicted in the same picture.

• Instead of creating natural-looking 3-D objects, painters offered a brand new set of images reassembled from 2-D fragments, simultaneously showing the objects from several sides.

Pablo Picasso

• invented collage and made major contributions to Symbolism and Surrealism. He saw himself above all as a painter, yet his sculpture was greatly influential

• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

• Girl before a mirror

Georges Braque

• focused on still lives and means of viewing objects from various perspectives through color, line, and texture.

• Nude reclining on the pedestal

Futurism

• avant-garde art movement that was launched in Italy in 1909

• sought to sweep away traditional artistic notions and replace them with an energetic celebration of the machine age.

• Focus was placed on creating a unique and dynamic vision of the future, and artists incorporated portrayals of urban landscapes as well as new technologies such as trains, cars, and airplanes into their depictions.

• Speed, violence, and the working classes were all glorified by the group

Umberto Boccioni

• The Charge of the Lancers

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (sculpture)

Gino Severini

• dynamic hieroglyphic of the bal tabarin

Giacomo Balla

• dynamism of a dog on a leash