Cubism
1907-1912
Cubism is a painting of a normal scene but painted from multiple views where the objects are distorted and sometimes looked scrambled.
George Braque - Violin and Sheet Music
The Cubists represented the world in a fragmented way. They broke up objects into many different viewpoints so that it no longer looked realistic.
Pablo Picasso and George Braque were important artists in developing the cubist style.
The merging of object and surroundings emphasised the flat 2-dimensional surface of the picture plane.
In Cubist painting and sculpture, spaces can be form (the inside of a cup is presented as solid ) and form can be space.
The Cubists used basic shapes such as the cube, sphere, cone and cylinder:
Over time, the Cubist style changed to incorporate collage and photography. Colours became brighter and the subject of the paintings flatter.
Look at some of the images below showing the cubist style
What do you think about the colours and the shapes?
David Hockney and Cubism:
Some of David Hockney’s art links to Cubism. He believes that a single photograph is limited and cannot represent time. In his photo collages, David Hockney shows different sides of the same subject.
