Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
Analytical Cubism: Physical
A style of painting and sculpture where multiple points of view, and/or parts of an object are rendered simultaneously. Because all of the parts that make up the whole of the object are represented, the image is not abstraction, but a distorted point of view. Originally, simplified geometric 3d shapes - cubes, spheres, cones, and columns, were used to visually convey the object. Eventually these were distilled down to their "analytic" forms, where visual gestures – like an "S" curve for the sound hole of a violin – began to function like signs to represent form.
Self Portrait Project - Part A
Create an Analytical Cubist Self Portrait. This will be a simultaneous physical view of yourself.
Final Due - Thursday, October 28th.
Posted on blog and printed 11x17 by the beginning of class.
Synthetic Cubism: Signs & Symbols
Synthetic cubism evolved into and/or replaced analytical cubism as "signs" representing parts of objects and/or "physical parts" of the objects themselves started to be used in "collages" to visually convey a subject or object. Real pieces of paper and/or fabric replaced painted flat depictions of paper and fabric. Real scores of music replaced drawn musical notation. Fragments of newspaper, playing cards, cigarette packs and advertisements, even pieces of wood either real or painted interacted with one another on the flat plane of the canvas to achieve a total interpretation - both form and sign - of life.
Self Portrait Project - Part B
Create an Synthetic Cubist Designer Self Portrait. This will be a simultaneous view signs that define and represent you.
Final Due - Thursday, November 13th.
Posted on blog and printed 11x17 by the beginning of class.
