![]() We have given you enough to think about today. Credit: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/Public Domain. Credit: Wikimedia "My Egypt" 1927, by Charles Demuth. "Sail in Two Movements",1919, by Charles Demuth. Here are two of Demuth's works, Sail in Two Movements and the rather enigmatically titled My Egypt. As Doe said: "In these paintings, the inherent geometry of colonial architecture or railyards and factories, or steamships and locomotives, were pared of detail and awarded a shimmering kind of clarity in sunlight often given the geometric character of Cubist planes". He spent time in Paris studying his craft and no doubt encountered the French masters of the style whilst he was there.įrom all accounts, Precisionism was the first indigenous modern art movement, emerging after WWI and lasting until the early 1930s. ![]() Credit: Mutual ArtĬharles Demuth (1883 - 1935) is another American " Precisionist' who created beautiful cubist watercolours. Credit: /public domain "Stacks in Celebration" by Charles Scheeler. Doe speaks of the works of Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) as seen here in Ballardvale and Stacks in Celebration. We have referred to the work of Donald Bartlett Doe Cubism in America Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 1985, to gain a better understanding of this subject. The closest movement to American Cubism was apparently Precisionism which was called by some Cubist-Realism. Significantly, Gleizes spent four crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making America aware of modern art. Teaching here were the likes of the Expressionists Paul Klee & Wassily Kandinsky, artists we have also covered in the Blog. Gleizes' influence extended to Germany to the Bauhaus, the most influential modernist art school of the C20th. Credit: Mutual Art "Portrait of Jacques Nayral" 1911, by Albert Gleizes. Credit: Guggenheim Museum "Cubist Landscape" by Albert Gleizes. Credit: Mutual Art "At the Veledrome" by Jean Metzinger. Here are a couple of examples of their work: "Still Life" by Jean Metzinger, 1911-12. Other French painters whose work is well known in the Cubist style are Jean Metzinger (1883 - 1956), and Albert Gleizes (1881 - 1953), both of whom were contemporaries of Braque and Picasso. "Little Harbour in Normandy" by Georges Braque, 1909. From 1909 - 1914, he spent the majority of his career working with Pablo Picasso, and together they developed the style known as Cubism. Credit: īorn in 1882, Georges Braque was a French painter who initially worked as an Impressionist, but was very influenced by the colour techniques of Cezanne. Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", (1907). Here is Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (1907), considered to be an example of this stage in his development. Proto-Cubism (Early Cubism) was a transition phase where the artists began experimenting with geometrization of form and reduced the colours in their palette as a reaction to Fauvism which followed post-impressionism. ![]() Credit: Detail from Picasso's "Guernica" Credit: Here are a couple of examples from Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, who are famous exponents of the art: Georges Braque bronze statuette. It is considered to be one of the most influential art movements of the C20th. In Cubism, the artist used geometric shapes incorporated into abstract designs resulting in paintings that appear fragmented & abstracted. Today we take a helicopter view of the development of Cubism, as a precursor to looking at some particular examples of Cubist artists. ![]()
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