Shape the world with cubes…

Cubism is a style of painting, I would go as far as saying a new way of looking at the world, that was developed by two amazing artists who stand out in the world of art today.The style of cubism that was first developed, was known as “Early cubism”. The main characteristics to cubism are that objects and pieces are broken up and analyzed, then reassembled. The key to the reassembly is abstract. The best way to achieve this is when the artist takes many viewpoints of what they are observing and rearranges it into one.

Pablo Picasso was the first of the two to create and develop cubism as a style. He was a Spanish artist,who started his career in cubism in 1907 and created the antecedent to cubism, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a painting consisting of five naked prostitutes in a brothel, two of which are wearing african masks. The african masks are very representative of the influence of African American art that was incredibly expressive, on Picasso’s work. This piece however, was his abandonment of traditonal perspective. This painting was an incredible challenge for Picasso, with over 100 sketches and his fight to work with a three dimensional figure on a two dimensional plane, it took him a while to come up with nothing less than satisfaction. Even with all of his struggles and creations, Picasso seemed to offend the European art scene as a whole, some critics going as far as saying “It was the ugliness of the faces that froze with horror the half-converted” and “One day we shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas“. Obviously there were some harsh feelings.

One of the most incredible things about the two artists working in the same studio at the same period in time, on the same style of art, was that they both created two completely different works of art, that were almost indistinguishable from the two artists if put side by side. George Braque was the second artist to create and develope cubism, and actually worked side by side with Picasso as they explored the new world of art.He reflected a lot of geometric shapes into his paintings as well as a play on light and direction. However, when World War 1 broke out in 1914, Braque enlisted in the army and this took him away from the studio.

Cubism really put a lot of things into perspective for me after I had learned that this was Picasso’s main style. I had never been able to put a name to his intriquet style of art, but ever since cubism came into my world, it makes a lot more sense. Here is a little peak at how cubism has effected the styles of today:

Bugs is a modern day cubist who uses this interesting style to incorporate into his tattoos. Cubism is the main style of Bugs and he uses it very well. Here is a look into his amazing style:

http://www.tattoo.tv/artists/interviews/320-bugs-tattoo-lounge-los-angeles.html

Works Cited

http://www.eyeconart.net/history/cubism.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/picasso_a.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque

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~ by whitegirl907 on November 4, 2009.