ART 2 - unit 3

Cubism
Artist #1

JUAN
GRIS
Fruit Dish on a Newspaper and
Checked Table Fruit Dish
Cloth
Artist #1

Cherries Bottle of Rum

and Newspaper
JUAN
GRIS
Artist #1

the Musician’s Table, 1926

House in Paris
JUAN
GRIS
Artist #2

Figure at the Seaside, 1931

Painter and the Model, 1928
Artist and his Model, 1926
A network of intertwining curved lines

PABLO
PICASSO
Artist #2

Bathers, 1932 Bathers, 1918

Faces are distorted as puzzle-like compositions and
most of the features are lost PABLO
PICASSO
Artist #2
PICASSO
PABLO

An unusual size for a Still Life

painting

Bread and Fruit Dish

on a Table, 1909
everything about cubism

The early 20th century

Key visual characteristics:

fragmentation and simplification into
geometric forms
representing 3D nature on a 2D surface
by showing various sides at once
Muted and monochromatic colour
palettes (more focus on forms rather
than colour)
Introduced the technique of collage
using real-world materials
mini project 1 - collage from found
Make a collage that includes…

some images you found and something you drew

different colour grounds and surfaces
different angles and parts or similar objects
Having many overlapping layers and elements
Unit mini project 1 - collage
2 days to complete this small collage:
Roughly A4 size
No white space left behind
Day 1: collect materials
Day 2: Assemble, arrange and stick!
mini project 2 - gradient and blending
Target materials:
Acrylic paint
Oil paint
Oil pastels

Exercise:
Create an abstract painting using one or
more of the target materials with colour
blending technique featuring 7 different
colours!

2 days to complete this small

collage:
Roughly A3 size
No white space left behind
Day 1 + 2 creative time!
unit project - “My busy fragmented world”

Day 1 - Research and planning

Produce: a, send your image reference to teacher;
b, thumbnail sketches x4
Day 2 - Painting station set-up and block-in
Produce: c, block-in all major parts and leaves no blanks
spaces of the canvas paper

Unit project explained

A large scale painting

Medium of your choice
(Acrylic, oil, soft pastel, oil pastel, alcohol marker, colour
paper, found imagery)
Answering the question “My Busy Fragmented World”
unit project - “My busy fragmented world”

1. Choose 2-3 items that you can relate to in your personal life
2. Screenshot the items from the listed websites in different
angles
3. Arrange the different angle screenshots onto A4 sized digital
canvas then send it to the teacher by the end of this class

Sketchfab.com
3dwarehouse.sketchup.com
unit project - “My busy fragmented world”
Understand an artwork
Pulling out the meaning or the
message from any piece of
artwork…
Identify the key visual elements - What
do you see ?
Make a hierarchy list of the elements
you have found - How important is
everything?
Make connections between the
elements - It’s like writing a sentence
base on what you see!

Let’s try it together!

Exercise - compose the meaning/message 1
Exercise - compose the meaning/message 2
Exercise - compose the meaning/message 3
Unit project - examples
Unit project - examples
Artist #3 GEORGES
BRAQUE

Landscape at La Ciotat, Bright and bold colors and Soda, 1912, oil on cavas
1907, oil on canvas anti-naturalistic rendering
embraced
Artist #3

Still Life with Tenora, 1913,

cut-and-pasted printed and
painted paper, charcoal,
chalk, and pencil on gessoes
canvas
Bold geometric fragments of contrasting types of paper

Road near L’Estaque, 1908, oil on canvas

GEORGES
Gradations of colors and flattened inaccessible spaces
BRAQUE
Artist #3

GEORGES
BRAQUE
Guitar, 1913, cur-and-pasted printed
and painted paper, charcoal, pencil
Man with a Guitar, 1911-12, oil on canvas
and gouache on gessoes canvas
Artist #4

DELAUNAY
ROBERT
Study for “The City”, 1909-10, oil on canvas

Windows Open Simultaneously,1912, oil on

canvas
the Three Windows, the Simultaneous contrasts
Tower and the Wheel, of colors and their
steady rhythmic motion
1912, oil on canvas
Artist #4

The Tower, 1911, ink and pencil The Tower and the Wheel, Simultaneous Contrasts Sun
on paper 1912-13, ink on paper and Moon, 1912, oil on canvas
gone beyond scientific analyses into a
mystical belief in colour

ROBERT
DELAUNAY
Artist #5 MARCEL
DUCHAMP
The forefather of conceptual art

Nude (Study), 1911-12

The coffee grinder’s handle is shown
in multiple positions in a
diagrammatic approach

Coffee Mill, 1911, oil and

graphite on board
Artist #5

To Be Looked at with One Eye, Close to, for the Passage from Virgin to
Almost an Hour, 1918, oil, silver leaf, lead Bride, 1912, oil on canvas
wire, and magnifying lens on cracked glass, MARCEL
mounted DUCHAMP
Artist #5

Landscape, 1911, oil on canvas

MARCEL
DUCHAMP
Artist #6

Woman with Pails: Dynamic Simultaneous Death in an

Arrangement, 1912-13, oil canvas Airplane and at the Railway,
1913, lithography

KASIMIR
MALEVISH
Artist #6

MALEVISH
KASIMIR
Reservist of the First Division, 1914, oil on The Reaper, 1912-13
canvas with collage of printed paper, postage Conical and cylindrical forms
stamp, and thermometer
Artist #6

Airplane Flying, 1915

Pictorial potential of pure abstraction

Morning in the Village After Snowstorm, 1912,

oil on canvas

KASIMIR
MALEVISH
Artist #7

the Conquest of the Air, 1913, oil on Still Life with a Diablo, 1914, oil on canvas
canvas
Evokes the group’s cadenced movement through
space

ROGER DE LA
FRESNAYE
Artist #7

the Unending Cult of Human

Sacrifice, oil on canvas
A more politically angry work of a range of religions and
military imagery as anti-war propaganda

C.R.W.
The Soul of the Soulless City (New York -
NEVINSON an abstraction), 1920
Artist #8

At the Velodrome, 1912, oil and collage on Landscape (Paysage), 1913-14,

canvas oil on canvas
JEAN
METZINGER
Artist #8

METZINGER
JEAN
Women with a Fan, 1912, oil on canvas Use of transparent planes to define space and
movement
Artist #9

METZINGER
JEAN
Table by a Window, 1917, oil on canvas Characterized by distorted space, strongly defined
planes and board shapes rendered in flat colours
Artist #9

Builders with Rope, 1950, oil on canvas

Composition, 1926, Gouache and FERNAND

ink on paper LEGER
Artist #9

FERNAND
LEGER

Men in the city, 1913, The Smokers, 1911-12, oil on canvas

oil painting Volumetric body and dynamic space