
Cubism
The revolutionary art movement of Picasso, Braque, and beyondBy Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea EimertLength3h 41m
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin.
Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity’s crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2I. Aesthetic Meditations on Painting: The Cubist Painters by Guillaume Apollinaire
3The Analysis of Form
4Picasso, Braque and the “Popular” Image
5The Merit of Material
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6Collage
7Simultaneity in Cubist Circles
8Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: Breaking with the Past
9A New Pictorial Language
10Poetic Metaphor
11Subjectivity
12Surreality or Sculpture in Painting
13Polarisation of Semantics
14Psychological Reality
15Synthetic Cubism
16Picasso’s Mysticism
17Major Artists
18Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973)
19Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882 – Paris, 1963)
20Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 – Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955)
21Juan Gris (Madrid, 1887 – Boulogne-Billancourt, 1927)
22Marcel Duchamp (Balinville, 1887 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968)
23Jacques Villon (Damville, 1875 – Puteaux, 1963)
24Jacques Lipchitz (Druskieniki, 1891 – Capri, 1973)
25Raymond Duchamp-Villon (Damville, 1876 – Cannes, 1918)
26Henri Laurens (Paris, 1885 – 1954)
27Alexander Archipenko (Kiev, 1887 – New York, 1964)
28Jean Metzinger (Nantes, 1883 – Paris, 1956)
29Albert Gleizes (Paris, 1881 – Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1953)
30Robert and Sonia Delaunay (Paris, 1885 – Montpelier, 1941 and Gradiesk, 1885 – Paris, 1979)
31Henri Le Fauconnier (Hesdin, 1881 – Paris, 1946)