At first, viewers were not enthusiastic about the strange-looking paintings. Picasso and Braque developed their new style together.Īndré Derain also took part in the lively exchange between the two. In 1908, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles called Braque’s paintings “cubist” for the first time, mockingly, and so the name for the cubist movement was born. Picasso and Braque were on the same artistic wavelength, had the same ideas and a close collaboration developed. Although he had initially reacted negatively to “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, both artists realized in 1908 that the paintings they had both painted independently the previous year were becoming more and more similar. It had a strong influence on the development of Cubism. 1907-1909 is therefore also called Picasso’s “African phase”. He had also come across masks from Africa, whose form and aesthetics impressed him greatly.
It didn’t happen so suddenly: In the years before, Picasso had intensively studied the works of other painters, for example, Paul Cézanne. You may wonder how an artist suddenly came up with this revolutionary idea. Picasso cubism is an essential part of the cubsit movement.
The picture shows five prostitutes whose bodies seem to be fragmented into geometric figures. Pablo Picasso’s work “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, which he completed in the summer of 1907, is regarded as the birth of Cubism. First, let’s take a look at the historical background. You can find out more about both styles below. The art form is divided into two styles with different characteristics: Analytical cubism and synthetic cubism. Figures and objects are transformed into ornaments made of cubes, spheres, cones, or pyramids, so to speak. This has to do with the fact that the represented object is not only reduced to different perspectives, but also to geometric figures. The name is derived from the Latin word for “cube”, cubus. This is called the “fourth dimension” because there are more than three dimensions in such a painting. So cubist paintings show different perspectives of a thing at the same time in one picture. Then you stick them together in such a way that you get half of the object you were looking at. As if you were looking at one part of the painting from the left, one from the right, and the next from the front. So imagine splitting the picture into individual components, all of which consist of different perspectives. The most important characteristic of cubist paintings is that it breaks this rule. The viewer should have the impression that he is actually looking at the scene of the painting. In art, for a long time, people painted in the same way. The perspective of all the objects in the picture fit together. When you look at a photo, you see it only from a single point of view, from where the camera was when it was taken. Among the most important representatives of Cubism is the Spaniard Pablo Picasso, who was already mentioned earlier, the French artists Georges Braque and Robert Delauney also played a major role. Perhaps you can see from this how much this artistic upheaval still occupies people today. As the most revolutionary new art movement to date, it also had a significant influence on sculpture and architecture.Īlthough no theoretical writings were written on Cubism, there are more books on it today than on the other styles of modern art. Famous examples are some paintings by Franz Marc, who you might have recognized by his depiction of colorful animals – especially blue horses.Ĭubism paintings then became much more experimental. Fauvism had already produced exciting, slightly abstract pictures that stood out above all because of their bright colors.
It is a style of visual art that appeared in France around 1906/1907 and replaced Fauvism.
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