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Cubist Art

CUBIST STYLE

Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”

Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.

Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.

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Dinner Meeting 3 - Midcentury Modern Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Dinner Meeting 3 - Midcentury Modern Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print Experience the timeless allure of "Dinner Meeting 3," a limited edition textured canvas print that capture...
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2010s Cubist Art

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After Georges Braque - Antiborée - Lithograph
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Lithograph after Georges Braque. Signed in the plate Edition of 150 Dimensions: 76 x 117 cm Bibliography: « Les Métamorphoses de Braque» of Heger de Loewenfeld and Raphaël de Cuttoli , Editions FAC, Paris, 1989. In 1961 Georges Braque decided with his laidary friend Heger de Loewenfeld to pick up certain of his works to in order to create artworks, this beautiful litograph is one of them. Héméra in the Mythology: In Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister. She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether (Light), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult. Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child. The father of Cubism Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922). Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism . Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ). Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote...
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1950s Cubist Art

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Lithograph

French Cubist Abstract Painting - Picasso influence - Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original cubist abstract painting by the very well listed French abstract and surrealist artist, Roger Herson (1922-2008). The painting is signed to the lower right corner. The painting has excellent provenance, having come from the artists estate. Roger Herson (1922-2008) was a French abstract, cubist and surrealist painter from Rouen, France. Influenced by Picasso, Braque and Léger, he infuses the canvas with a frenzied and tonic movement, a rigorous construction and a personal graphic power. Painter of woman, desire and fantasies, Herson draws his inspiration from the verve and surrealist movement inspired by Georgio de Chirico...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Art

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Bouquet - Lithograph for Revue "Verve" by Georges Braque - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
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Lithograph

Acrobat, Aquatint Etching by Max Papart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Acrobat Max Papart, French (1911–1994) Date: circa 1982 Aquatint Etching with Carborundum, Collage, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 6/53 Image Size: 24 x 38 inches Size: 30 ...
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1980s Cubist Art

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Three Dancing Figures, Modern Painting by Arnold Weber
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arnold Weber, American (1931 - 2010) Title: Three Abstract Figures Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.76 cm)
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Cubist Abstract, Gouache Painting by Marcel Salinas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Cubist Composition Year: circa 1945 Medium: Gouache on Board, signed Size: 29 in. x 40 in. (73.66 cm x 101.6 cm) Frame S...
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1940s Cubist Art

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"Une Assiette Faune Rose, " Giclee Print after 1955 Original Ceramic by Picasso
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Une Assiette Faune Rose" is a giclee print on watercolor paper after an original ceramic from 1955 by Pablo Picasso. The red ceramic contains a very stylized cubist face. There are ...
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Colourful Cubist Abstract, Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Huge French Cubist Abstract Oil Painting 6 Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Composition "Composition aux 6 couleurs" by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) signed lower corner, dated 1979 oil painting on board, framed Framed 37 x 27 inches Stunning...
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The Broken Vase
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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1970s Cubist Art

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