Cubist Art Paper

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Cubism arts were the most influential visual arts styles during the 20th century and the revolutionary style of modern art that was established by George Braque and Pablo Picasso ("Georges Braque | French artist," 2014). This art movement was meant to revitalize the western art tired traditions, which were believed to have run their course. In this case, the Cubist art movement challenged the typical forms of representation, such as perspective, which were considered as the rules since the Renaissance. Artists in the Cubism art movement abandoned its perspective that was previously used in depicting space, and they also left the realistic modeling of its figures. The Cubist artists further explored open forms, piercing objects and characters …show more content…

Some authors argue that some of the Cubist innovations were representing a response to the change in experience of time, space, and movement in the modern day world ("Georges Braque Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works," 2016). On the other hand, the Cubism art movement paved the way for the non-representational art through implementing a new emphasis on the collaboration of the surface of the canvas and the depicted environment.
There were two distinct phases within Cubism; the first phase of Cubism was the Analytical Cubism that lasted until 1912. In this case, an artist could analyze the subject via different angles and then reconstructed this issue within a geometric framework, and the general effect was mainly to create an image that would evoke a sense of the original subject. The image fragments were then unified using a limited and subdued palette of colors. Synthetic Cubism was the second …show more content…

In addition to the ambiguous spatial effects he used during the analytic phase, his synthetic phase comprises of new ambiguities that exist between the reality and his personal creations. Like in the Clarinet painting of 1913, he uses oil paint, charcoal, newspaper fragments and chalk to come up with an actual tabletop ("Georges Braque Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works", 2016). With a monochromatic and neutral implementation of colors, his Cubistic arts are more loose and free with some intensifying colors. Through his works in the Cubism art movement, he was always committed to the contemporary perspective and fragmentation that he adopted from his mentor, Cezanne. Some of his famous paintings include bottle and fish, Woman with a Guitar, Ace of Clubs, Black Fish, and Fruit Dish, and Houses at L’Estaque, Fruitdish ("Georges Braque Biography (1882-1963) – A French Cubism Artist Life", 2016).Braque is seen as one of the leading Cubism Art Movement members and a founder of the Cubist style of art. He and Picasso have been inspired by Cezanne paintings and they eventually develop their style of art that grew to be known as a Cubist art style that was adopted later by other artists ("Georges Braque

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