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How are you? This post goes with our textbook today, and is something you can look at and think about as you read, and after you listen and discuss, about cubism and its ideas on space and rhythm in its pictures.
The two paintings above are contests of realism and cubism. On the left is a painting by Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot, one of the great romantic and realist painters, and on the right is a painting of the same subject by Juan Gris, one of the great cubist artists. Gris wanted to show how cubism could treat a subject such as what Corot did, by showing how space and rhythm could be shown on a flat, two-dimensional surface.
Activity
The following illustrations are diagrams of space and rhythm in cubist art by Albert Gleizes, a French cubist painter and theorist who wrote and taught about cubist principles. He illustrated how cubism divided up and changed different planes on a two-dimensional surface to create a dynamic kind of space, with movement.
After you read about cubism, look at these illustrations Gleizes made. You do not have to remember them! The most important thing is how he thought of space and rhythm. Take a look at these:
First, basic blocks of space in a two dimensional surface are moved around.
Then shapes are mixed with other shapes and angles to create a sense of movement.
So in a finished cubist work, planes, shapes, and lines all act with one another to create a dynamic space with a sense of rhythm, all on a flat surface.
The two paintings above are contests of realism and cubism. On the left is a painting by Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot, one of the great romantic and realist painters, and on the right is a painting of the same subject by Juan Gris, one of the great cubist artists. Gris wanted to show how cubism could treat a subject such as what Corot did, by showing how space and rhythm could be shown on a flat, two-dimensional surface.
Activity
The following illustrations are diagrams of space and rhythm in cubist art by Albert Gleizes, a French cubist painter and theorist who wrote and taught about cubist principles. He illustrated how cubism divided up and changed different planes on a two-dimensional surface to create a dynamic kind of space, with movement.
After you read about cubism, look at these illustrations Gleizes made. You do not have to remember them! The most important thing is how he thought of space and rhythm. Take a look at these:
In addition, other shapes are changed in angle, and moved around within the space.
So in a finished cubist work, planes, shapes, and lines all act with one another to create a dynamic space with a sense of rhythm, all on a flat surface.
While this looks like a complicated and difficult way to think of painting pictures, you can see that cubism was more than a style - it was a movement with almost mathematical theory behind it.
I hope this might make cubist paintings more understandable for you in why the artists did what they did with line, shape, and pattern in their work.
See you next time!
Images: Top - screenshot of Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot's Girl with Mandolin and Juan Gris' Woman with Mandolin (after Corot) (La femme à la mandoline, d'après Corot) - taken from Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - Saint Louis Art Museum, Public
Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40710376 and Juan Gris - [1], Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40490704/Albert Gleizes illustrations from Design Coldcreation, after Albert Gleizes, CC
BY-SA 3.0, respectively https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40709401; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40709402; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40709400; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40709403
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