Cubism and Futurism

They're all so square!

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

Cubism

• current envents: scientific discoveries (radioactivity, x-rays, non-Euclidian geometry)
• simplify, flatten
• broken & multiple perspectives
• no rational light source
• breakdown dilineation of one form or space and another
• primitivism
• muted colors
• Analytic Cubism: break subject into pieces
• Synthetic Cubism: take pieces to make something
  • collage: incorporate other materials
  • or painting that looks like collage
• abstract color planes

Futurism

• more dynamic
• sense of motion

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Cubism
Futurism

CUBISM
Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907
Pablo Picasso Still Life with Chair Caning 1912 collage Spaniard in France
Pablo Picasso Three Musicians 1921
Georges Braque The Portuguese 1911 French
Fernand Leger The City 1919
Robert Delauney Eiffel Tower 1911
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912

Futurism
Gino Severini Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin 1912
Giacomo Balla Dog on a Leash 1912
Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913

VOCAB

passage
collage
construction
Analytic Phase (1908/9-12)
Synthetic Phae (1912-1920s)

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