![]() Moving now to some more complicated subjects, here is my first landscape: White background looks terrible!Ĭar n2 works out better already, I used a Stephen McNally collage as a background: ![]() Well, not the finest but acceptable as trial n1. A nice orange truck found in my neighbourhood look good, my first test is on: In search of a nice subject, I walk around to find some inspiration. One of the most influential artist of 20 th century using cubism is the talented multi-skilled David Hockney, here are some of his so called ‘joiners’:Īnother excellent photographer is Stephen McNally an England-based fine art photographer, specializing in landscape photography and street photography: The first test is finding inspiration from some modern cubist photographer. RIGHT: George Braques ‘ Vase, Palette, and Mandolin’, 1936 LEFT: Pablo Picasso ‘Still Life with mandolin and Guitar’, 1924 ![]() His painting ‘Still Life with Chair Caning’ was the first example of this ‘collage’ technique and it opened the door for himself and other artists to the second phase of the Cubist style. In an attempt to revitalise the style and pull it back from total abstraction, Picasso began to glue printed images from the ‘real world’ onto the surface of his still lifes. Cubism was running out of creative steam. Their work was increasingly abstract and less recognisable as the subject of their titles. Their images had grown so similar that their paintings of this period are often difficult to tell apart. LEFT: Pablo Picasso, ‘Head of a Woman’, 1907Īround 1912, the styles of Picasso and Braque were becoming predictable. The Cubists believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and another remedy they applied to revitalize their work was to draw on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, especially African art. ![]() PICASSO ‘Factory, Horta de Ebbo’, 1909 G. The Cubists proposed that your sight of an object is the sum of many different views and your memory of an object is not constructed from one angle, as in perspective, but from many angles selected by your sight and movement. The artist perceived and selected elements from the subject, fusing both their observations and memories into the one concentrated image. The limitations of perspective were eliminated as Cubists wanted to make pictures that reached beyond the rigid geometry of perspective and introduce the idea of ‘relativity’. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Reinacence. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalise the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques.
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