With such physical elements and the words BAR and ALE added, he prevents the user from having any spatial perception of the work. The viewer could see a fruit bowl, grapes, and pears. Also, here, he was the first to use papier collé (pasted paper), a form of collage, where he added cutouts of faux bois (fake wooden) wallpaper. In this 1912 artwork, Braque was the first to use sand which he mixed with gesso, a white paint mixture. On the top left, there’s a journal with the letters JOU on top (standing for “game” in french, or journal). Around the top right corner, you’ll see a cut out lemon with a knife handle and blade on top of it. By adding a physical piece to the painting which simulates something else, he’s a play on a multiple levels of reality. In a typical Cubist fashion, one sees multiple perspectives of items on top of the table at once. There’s an oil cloth with an imprint of a cane chair design, popular at the time in cafés which is the setting of this artwork. This 1912 work by Picasso is considered the first collage. Still Life with Chair Caning by Pablo Picasso
Analytic Cubism is intellectual while Synthetic Cubism is playful.Īrtists of Synthetic Cubism did not create paintings, but built “ collages.” Canvases displayed a “synthesis” (combination) of different media beyond paint: newsprint, textual images, cloth, paper and even sand. Synthetic Cubism is was less concerned with representation of the subject, and more with the use of various materials, textures and colors.
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How to identify Synthetic Cubism? How it differs from Analytic Cubism? It was hint of what was called later Synthetic Cubism. And just for fun (and to play with the flattening effect), the artist stenciled letters and numbers. But because the canvas looks like broken glass, it’s impossible to have complete reading of the painting. You also see parts of the musician and his guitar. You could see a docking post and a nautical rope in the top right. Artists would choose one basic color for the entire work, and its variations when needed.īraque portrayed a Portuguese guitar player he saw in a bar Marseilles. Cubist paintings are often monochromatic. Portrait de Jacques Nayral by Albert Gleizesĥ. The painting also foreshadows the Futurist movement by depicting repeated elements to show dynamism and motion of the crowd. Note the pipe-shaped bodies parts of the wedding guests on the left of the bride. The artwork is Cubist as it shows mutliple viewpoints of the crowded scene. He might be a priest or a parent of the bride or the groom. His hand is above the couple in a way to bless their union. The identity of the man in blue (in the upper half of the painting) is not clear. Next to her, dressed in green, is the groom whose hand is on her shoulder to support her. Her white dress takes up all the space to the bottom of the painting. The Sacré-Cœur Basilica is at the top of the painting.Ī wedding procession is theme of this painting. On the left of the central figure, another one is gazing into a mirror in her left hand, while holding a fan in her right hand The boat is placed on the right side under the steam ship. Another figure, wearing a necklace, is reclining next to a red bird. The central figure is holding a blue bird. L’Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) by Jean MetzingerĬan you spot the following in the above painting: a basilica, a steam ship, a boat, a necklace, a pyramid, a mirror, a fan, a fruit bowl, four different birds, three nude women? With the same painting displaying different viewpoints, different lighting, and even different times of day, sometimes it’s too complex to understand. Sometimes the object and background interpenetrate one another. True! When you’re confronted by a Cubist painting, you have to put the pieces together in your mind to understand what it represents. Its haters once described the Cubist canvas as a field of broken glass.
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