Cubism Or, Intellectual Aesthetics St. Lawrence, 5/1/2016 Sunday, May 1, 2016 Course Outline Early Cubism Analytical Cubism Synthetic Cubism

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1 Cubism Or, Intellectual Aesthetics St. Lawrence, 5/1/2016 Sunday, May 1, 2016 Course Outline Early Cubism Analytical Cubism Synthetic Cubism Key Notions -Analytical -Collage -Synthetic 1

2 1895 Cézanne s Bibemus Quarry 1907 Picasso s Demoiselles D Avignon Early Cubism Analytical Cubism Synthetic Cubism World War 1 01/05/2016 Timeline Baroque ( ) Rococo ( ) Neoclassicism ( ) Romanticism (19th) Realism (Mid to end of 19th) Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th) Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th) Cubism ( ) Word-stock Lack of perspective Lack of volume Lack of one light source Unnatural colors Reduced palette Portraits, genre scene, landscape, still-life 2

3 Early Cubism ( ) Or, Rejection of Perspective and Form Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte- Victoire , Oil on canvas, 91,7 x 72,8 cm, The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry 1897, Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore 3

4 Cézanne, Bibemus Quarry 1900, Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany) Braque, Houses at Estaque 1908, Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany) Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein , Oil on canvas, 81,3 x 100 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 4

5 Picasso, Self-Portrait 1907, Oil on canvas, 46 x 50 cm, Narodni Gallery, Prague October 25 th, 1881 (Malaga, Spain) His father is an art instructor drawing Studies at Royal Academy in Madrid Cézanne retrospective in 1906 Dies April 8 th, 1973 (Mougins, France) Picasso, Les Demoiselles d Avignon 1907, Oil on canvas, 243,9 x 233,7 cm, MoMA, New York Mahongwé Mask Analytical Cubism ( ) Or, Breaking down Reality 5

6 Braque, Fishing Boats 1909, Oil on canvas, 92,1 x 73,3 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Picasso, Reservoir at Horta Summer 1909, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, Private collection Braque, The Plants of the Rio Tinto at l Estaque 1910, Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris 6

7 Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard 1910, Oil on canvas, 66 x 93 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow Picasso, Portrait of Kahnweiler Autumn 1910, Oil on canvas, 72,4 x 100,4 cm, Art Institute of Chicago Picasso, The Guitar Player Summer of 1910, Oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris 7

8 Braque, The Emigrant c , Oil on canvas, 81 x 117 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Synthetic Cubism ( ) Or, Combination of Textures Picasso, Nature morte à la chaise cannée January of 1912, Mixed medium, 29 x 37 cm, Picasso Museum, Paris Still Life Portrait Genre Scene 8

9 Picasso, La Bouteille de Vieux marc 1913, Mixed medium, 62,5 x 47 cm, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris Still Life Portrait Genre Scene Braque, Violon et pipe («Le Quotidien») , Mixed medium, 74 x 106 cm, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris Still Life Portrait Genre Scene Picasso, Trois Musiciens 1921, Oil on canvas, 204 x 188 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Still Life Portrait Genre Scene 9

10 Suggested reading -Gombrich, The Story of Art, p. XX -Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. XX -Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. X, p. XX -Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages, p. X Bibliography and Sources 1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities 2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction 3. Davies, Janson s Basic History of Western Art 4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol Gombrich, The Story of Art 6. Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages