Cubism Case

Cubism

Cubism consisted of a specific vision, was an entire movement between previous artistic eras, and helped develop architecture. Cubism originated in the city of Paris in 1907. It started with three dimensional images, without shading or perspective. Cubism began as a revolt against artistic expression from artistic eras earlier before. Architecture was also a part of the cubist revolt.

The cubist vision began with Europeans discovering African, Micronesian, and Native American art. Cubism was an artistic view where they created images using three dimensional images without the use of shading or any perspective towards the painting. Cubism wanted to "trompe l'oeil" meaning, fool the eye; into thinking overlapping and interlocking two dimensional planes make three dimensional pictures. Pictures drawn with perspective could only see the image one way. Cubists worked without perspective so their work could be seen many different ways. Cubism being an abstract art was a revolution into modern art. Abstract art, such as cubism was one of the first styles of art trying to revitalize the traditions of Western art. Cubists such as Picasso, Duchamp, Braque, Cezanne, and Metzinger challenged conventional forms of representation dealing with perspective.

Cubism had two main development periods, analytic and synthetic cubism. The analytic phase was based on close observations of objects and the background around them. Cubists restricted themselves to a palette of earth tones and silvers trying to increase the clarity between the broken planes. The synthetic phase came after the analytic phase introducing bold and simple shapes when working with collages. Synthetic Cubism worked on moving away from the unified surfaces of analytic cubism and took a more direct approach with the use of colorful and decorative style. Synthetic Cubists images appear even more abstract with their use of simplified forms, other elements, and the composition that was applied traditionally with changing lines, colors, patterns, textures, that switch from geometric to freehanded drawings, dark to light, positive to negative, and plain to pattern.

Cubism and architecture share the same characteristics when dealing with geometrical shapes and forms. Cubist artists painted abstract objects. Buildings based on cubist principles are designed with geometrical interlocking shapes just as cubists art work. Modern design of architecture is designed to allow a maximum amount of light into the building. Traditional design use windows and doors with a conventional design.

The cubist vision was about creating images while using three dimensional shapes while not using any shading or perspective so that images could be seen in many different ways. Analytic cubism was the first phase for cubism where artists used a palette of Earth tones and silvers in order to keep clarity between the different planes. Synthetic