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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Style: Cubist
Artist: Robert Marc
Robert Marc - Untitled - Signed Oil on Canvas
By Robert Marc
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Robert Marc
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
Signed
60 x 80 cm
80 x 100 cm (Framed)
The painting is rich and complex with a palette and surface quality that warms and harmonises his ge...
Category
1950s Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
Robert Marc - Untitled (9690), cubist, post cubism, french, collage, abstract
By Robert Marc
Located in London, GB
Robert Marc (French, 1943-1993)
Untitled (9690)
collage
36 x 55 cm (14⅛ x 21⅝ in.)
signed ‘ROBERT MARC’ (lower centre)
Price:
£9,000 GBP
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Forum Gall...
Category
20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Composition "68", ROBERT MARC - Cubist, Modern, Abstract, Geometric, Mixed Media
By Robert Marc
Located in London, GB
Composition "68", ROBERT MARC
Oil on canvas
22 x 31 cm (8 ⅝ x 12 ¼ inches)
Signed lower centre, Robert Marc
Numbered on the reverse, H966
Executed December 1990
Provenance
Collectio...
Category
1990s Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Robert Marc - Untitled (9618), cubist, post cubism, french, painting, abstract
By Robert Marc
Located in London, GB
Robert Marc (French, 1943-1993)
Untitled (9618)
oil on canvas
20 x 60 cm (7⅞ x 23⅝ in.)
signed ‘ROBERT MARC’ (lower centre)
Price:
£10,000 GBP
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Foru...
Category
20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cubist Composition - Original Oil Painting on Canvas, Handsigned
By Robert Marc
Located in Paris, FR
Robert MARC
Cubist composition
Original oil painting on board
Signed in the bottom center
55 x 46 cm at view (c. 22 x 18 in)
Presented in a silver wood frame 71 x 62 cm (c. 28 x 25 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
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