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by Nick on August 24th, 2009
The Cubists tried to get away from one-point perspective which dominated Western painting since the Renaissance. Basically, one-point perspective freezes the scene into a photographic image. It works like the eye of a camera - one eye only. Cézanne tried to paint with both eyes open simultaneously. Therefore his contours looks blurred in close-up. However, they read well over greater distance. The Cubists - Picasso and Braque - tried to use several viewpoints and consequently had to break up the objects they painted. the phase of Analytical Cubism shows how they tried to come to grips with the problem of depicting an object from several viewpoints at once - in order to allow a more comprehensive, time-based view of what they saw. They used angular lines to separate the different viewpoints - you could also see those as different "moments" seen after one another - from each other. Piet Mondrian misunterstood Analytical Cubism and concentrated on the grid of angular lines, dispensing with the object altogether. Picasso never did that. Out of Analytical Cubism, he developed Synthetic Cubism, where he introduced movement into his depictions. Some people misunderstood the figures he painted as distorted. In fact, they should be read as moving on the picture plane (his faces do not have three eyes, for instance, but two eyes, one of which is seen twice).
is this a real signed picasso?
by oldertreasures on February 2nd, 2011
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If a 10 year old child asks me about Picasso, what could I tell him about this artist that he would enjoy?
by Marguerite on October 5th, 2009
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Where can I find an online print of Pablo Picasso's 1965 painintg depicting a woman urinating on the beach?
by hkkkb on August 26th, 2010
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What is Picasso's most famous quote?
by Marguerite on August 30th, 2009
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I have a Picasso print but under his signature, appearing to be in the same writing appearing to be "fordington" what an why is that?
by william.nytecap.lackey on January 16th, 2012
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Thanks, Nick! Amazing information. Wow! It's intense! I'll have to allow that to sink in awhile and ponder upon it, maybe look at examples. I understand about one point perspective but to have several reminds me of a kaleidoscope, but I can't tell you why. Looking at some of his works does remind me of that also.
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009
I don't understand this part? Can you explain it further? What is a time-based view? Also, how could Mondrian dispense with the object altogether, when clearly there is an object there in the picture? So I'm wondering what Mondrian was looking at. I haven't yet looked at Synthetic Cubism, but I'm glad you have also explained it because it helps to know where I'm going. Picasso's drawings are beginning to make more sense to me, especially about the three eyes part. Even not knowing all this I had found I liked Picasso's work very enjoyable to look at. I guess that was what his point was in creating it. No?
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009
I'm adding the images I found on analytic cubism so that anyone else can read this and see what we are talking about. I haven't seen these images slowly yet, but I imagine coming back to this question and answer with the pictures will be like reading a good book for me. I appreciate your explanation and I'll be on my merry way to look at the images of what it all means. "A picture says a thousand words."++++
http://images.google.com/images?q=analytic+cubism&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBS_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7XySSvbbM4LKtgf2wc3OBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009
With time-based view I mean that the image is not frozen in time (as the camera lens and the one-point perspective views are), but that the image can be read as a movement in time, or as is more appropriate for Analytic Cubism, as several different moments in time, which are experienced as separate. That is why there is the grid of angular lines that seems to lie on top of the image (seen very clearly in Picasso's portraits from 1910 such as Ambroise Vollard -in the Pushkin Museum Moscou) or Daniel Henry Kahnweiler (in the Art Institute Chicago). Now Mondrian was intrigued by the angular lines and gradually eliminated the object in his own work. Hence you could say that he took the angular grid system out of Analytical cubism and used it as the motif of his own Neo-Plasticist paintings. In my opinion, it is a misunderstanding -albeit a fruitful one- of the concept of Cubism, where the angular lines are not essential, but only a side-effect of the idea to split up the object.
by Nick on August 24th, 2009
If you are waiting for me to response, know that I am trying to examine what you are telling me. I have to fill in the gaps of my learning, as I can't go back and forth without that knowledge. I had to read up on neoplasticism to understand what you are telling me. Ok. back to time-based view? I understand what you mean now, as I have already studied how movement is created in art.
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009
I can see the differences of the use of lines and forms between cubism and neoplasticism. I can see why Picasso used the angular lines now.
This is very interesting and works your brain. If anybody thinks the study of art is easy, they should just look at one idea, like we have done here, and explore it.
Again, Nick, thanks. I know your time is valuable and so is your knowledge. If I could pay you, I would. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What can I say?
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009
Just enjoy looking at art and thinking about it, but beware, it can be addictive. I've been hooked since the last 30 years...
by Nick on August 24th, 2009
And it has made you a happier person! Me too!
by Marguerite on August 24th, 2009