ID 2242 Exam 3 - Cubism and Futurism

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 1907

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

-refers to the street he grew up on, memory painting, not direct observation

-collector of African art

• equivalence: mask for face

• geometrical abstraction

- analytic cubism

- multiple viewpoints

• face looking from front

• body looking from back

• refers to spacetime (fourth dimension)

• time passing as you move through space

-studied time motion photography studies

• combined the photos to make a simultaneous sequence

- Apollinaire: "time unfolding in space...space extending in time"

- simultaneity

• leg in motion, simultaneous sequence

• arm in motion, simultaneous sequence

- empty space in motion

• figures move through it

• geometricized

- Henri Poincare, Albert Einstein: "fourth dimension" "spacetime"

Lady with Mandolin, 1910

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

- simultaneity

• shoulder in motion

• arm in motion

• figure moving in and out of space

• time passing

• space is moving, geometricized

- analytic cubism

• analyzing the form of movement

• analyzing empty space

Cubism

-Louis Vauzcelles said of Picasso’s work

• nothing but geometric schemas and cubes

Still-life with Chair Caning, 1912

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

- Synthetic Cubism

• wine glass is analyzed in cubism, everything else is synthesized cubism

-made with ready-made objects

• things that already exist

-Layers drawing on top of glass

-trims the glass with rope

-oil cloth with the illusion of the print of chair caning

-collage, new art form

-meant to be a table

• glass is table top

• print of chair caning is the chair shown through the table

• one drawing in an analyzed wine glass, different angles in motion

• “JOU” reference to a newspaper on top of the table

collage

art made from the an assemblage of different materials

-synthetic cubism

Violin, 1918

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

- Synthetic Cubism

-collage

• newspaper

• drawing on paper

Bull’s Head, 1918

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

- Synthetic Cubism

-made from a bicycle

-ready-made objects

• seat of bike

• -handle bars of blike

-collage

Guernica, 1937

-Cubism

-Pablo Picasso

- Synthetic Cubism

-large painting

-about the bombing the city of Guernica by the Nazi

-He heard about it in the newspaper

• used newspaper in the painting

-black and white, like it was printed

-first draft of painting

• mother with dead child

• bull

• sun

• mare giving birth while dying

• fallen warrior with sword

• burning house

-Final draft

• sun turned into the eye of god with a lightbulb in it

• Bull turned around, a self-portrait of Picasso

• sharp items to show pain

• people in distress

The City Rises, 1911

-Futurism

-Umberto Boccioni

-what are the dynamic patterns of the city?

• vibration in the city

• frenzy of the urban

• comes up with patterns of each form of motion

-influenced by the motion studies

-influenced by spacetime

-forms are dynamic, in motion

-interpenetration of space and forms

-circular/swirling shapes in centripetal motion

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

-Futurism

-Umberto Boccioni

-shape of walking forwards

• wing like behind the figure

-dynamic

-frenzy

-movement

-face in walking motion

• took a simultaneous sequence photo of his face moving and incorporated that to the face

Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912

-Futurism

-Umberto Boccioni

-bottle trembling in space

-shape of interprsentration:

• a helix

• influenced by recent discoverings of the atoms and the electrons circulating the atoms