Cubism It's about shapes and Space

Cubism is:

• simplified (made in an almost unskilled manner)
• stylized (more like a design that an actual representation)
• flat (two dimensional)
• geometric (using basic shapes)
• angular (lack of modelling and natural curves)
• shows multiple points of view (seen from different angles all in one picture)
• has overlapping planes (areas and shapes which appear to shift or tilt)
• after the invention of the camera
• used principles of African Art

3 Kinds of Cubism

• analytical analyze shapes
• geometric  
•  also known as angular (no roundness)

• faceted     like broken glass

   Marcel Duchamp This was a spoof on Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (entitled Rude Descending a Staircase)

 Duchamp Descending a Staircase (Photo)

  Romare Bearden was a light skinned African_American who turned down the opportunity to play ball in the major leagues if it meant denying his race.

      Bearden  (his works reflected African-American pride)

Picasso: Three musicians

Guernica was Picasso's documentary about the Spanish Civil War:

Soldier dies, woman weeps over dead baby, cattle is slaughtered....as another bomb overhead finished it all.

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More examples of cubism below:

Romare Bearden	large view Bearden	Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden	Romare Bearden	Romare Bearden Three Folk Musicians
large view Pablo Picasso	Iraqnica....Spoof on Guernica	large view Pablo Picasso Weeping Woman1
Pablo Picasso Weeping Woman2

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