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 painting, 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, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, 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.
Author(s): Dorothea Eimert, Guillaume Apollinaire
Series: Art of Century Collection
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 200
Tags: Искусство и искусствоведение;Изобразительное искусство;История изобразительного искусства;
Contents......Page 5
Aesthetic Meditations onPainting: The Cubist Paintersby Guillaume Apollinaire......Page 7
The Analysis of Form......Page 29
Picasso, Braque and the “Popular” Image......Page 30
Simultaneity in Cubist Circles......Page 41
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: Breaking with the Past......Page 47
A New Pictorial Language......Page 51
Poetic Metaphor......Page 57
Subjectivity......Page 68
Surreality or Sculpture in Painting......Page 77
Polarisation of Semantics......Page 87
Psychological Reality......Page 99
Synthetic Cubism......Page 110
Picasso’s Mysticism......Page 121
Major Artists......Page 127
Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973)......Page 129
Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882 – Paris, 1963)......Page 135
Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 – Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955)......Page 143
Juan Gris (Madrid, 1887 – Boulogne-Billancourt, 1927)......Page 149
Marcel Duchamp (Balinville, 1887 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968)......Page 155
Jacques Villon (Damville, 1875 – Puteaux, 1963)......Page 161
Jacques Lipchitz (Druskieniki, 1891 – Capri, 1973)......Page 165
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (Damville, 1876 – Cannes, 1918)......Page 169
Henri Laurens (Paris, 1885 – 1954)......Page 173
Alexander Archipenko (Kiev, 1887 – New York, 1964)......Page 177
Jean Metzinger (Nantes, 1883 – Paris, 1956)......Page 181
Albert Gleizes (Paris, 1881 – Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1953)......Page 185
Robert and Sonia Delaunay (Paris, 1885 – Montpelier, 1941 and Gradiesk, 1885 – Paris, 1979)......Page 189
Henri Le Fauconnier (Hesdin, 1881 – Paris, 1946)......Page 193
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 195
Index......Page 196
