This gallery includes the painting styles of cubism, which was famously used by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. This style became a style in the 20th century. Originally, Louis Vauxcelles created the term after viewing a painting by Braque. Cubism is made up of geometric designs, collaging, and planes which lock together. These paintings consist of multiple viewpoints.
Portrait of Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927), January-February 1912, From the collection of: The Art Institute of Chicago
Juan Gris actually met Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. He helped develop Cubism with them both. He held a high regard for Picasso, and paid his respect to him with this painting. Gris painted Pablo as a man who created new styles of cubism and was well known by artists across paris.
The painting has round and straight geometric lines, which are sharp to show different perspectives of Picasso. Pablo fills up mostly all of the positive space with little to no negative space. The color scheme is also tetradic with the white to black and light blue to dark blue, although the painting is mostly desaturated with a few parts more saturated. The paining has more light values than dark values. The texture seems to be very soft, because of how each color flows into the next.
Natura morta con pesci, Pablo Picasso, 1932, From the collection of: Mart, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto
"Natura morta con pesci" is Italian for "Still life with fish." Although this piece of art has no description or real outline of why it was made by Picasso, it contains the style of cubism.
The artwork is geometric and jagged in a way, and there is less positive space than negative space. Positive being the half-cut fish. The colors are more saturated in this piece, and the color scheme is both complimentary and analogous. This painting has colors opposites to each other, and colors that are seen together on the color wheel. The value of the painting is light and dark, the bottom being more dark than the rest of the piece. The texture would seem soft, considering the yellow is very flat and no grain looking texture. The rest of the painting would be the same, since all the colors have the same quality in them.
The Bottle of Anís del Mono, Juan Gris, 1914, From the collection of: Museo Reina Sofia
Gris created this painting during the start of world war 1, when he was in France. The law in France forced people into military service. Being from Spain, Gris did not want to choose one city over another in the draft.
The art of the painting is geometric shaped and with straight lines except for the center circles. There is no movement in the piece.The colors are desaturated and complementary as all colors could be next to each other rolling down one side of the color wheel. From top to bottom the painting has light to dark values.
Portrait of Jan Zrzavý, Bohumil Kubišta, 1912, From the collection of: Olomouc Museum of Art
Though the painting is named the "Portrait of Jan Zrzavy," this is actually the portrait of John Zrzavého. He portrayed him as calm and in peace, although the background shows a more destructive environment.
The painting is quite contrasty with values of light and dark that are consistent and based on the entire mood of the painting. The color scheme is less saturated and Triadic, as all colors are apart from each other on the color wheel. The man takes up most of the painting as positive space and there is a little bit of negative space around him. All shapes and lines in the painting are geometric and mostly straight. The man is static from the paintings intentional meaning of the peace of mind.
Woman with a Fan, Emil Filla, 1917, From the collection of: Olomouc Museum of Art
Fills created this painting in the styles of Picasso and Braque while he was in Netherlands after France was impacted by war. He invested his time in 17th-Century Landscape and still life paintings by the Dutch. It is not clear that there is a message from the painting, but reference to well known artists and what he studied at the time.
The whole painting is geometrically shaped and straight with few curved lines. There is actually movement in the painting, from the fan the woman is waving. The colors are less saturated, complimentary and analogous because some are along each other on the color, but the few others are opposites (white, black). The image has more of a darker value, with more darker colors than lighter ones.
Originally, this painting was meant to be named "Naturaleza muerta con utensils." He painted this as an experiment with lighting and the fourth dimension.
The painting has an overall dark value with colors that are less saturated. The color scheme seems to be tetradic and analogous because four colors are complementary pairs and two other colors are next to each other on the color wheel. All shapes are geometric more straight with less curves. It is completely static with no movement.
When Souza-Cardoso created this small painting, it changed the whole look on cubism. It was more abstract. Like the other artists in this gallery, Souza paid homage to Picasso and Braque by what styles they introduced to cubism by the vertical and frontal view of the woman.
This painting is geometrically shaped but also isn't very jagged. The lines are more smooth even though most of them are straight. There is a lot of negative space around the girl with her filling up the positive space. The color scheme is analogous, as all colors are along each other on the color wheel. The value of this image seems to be more light than dark and has saturated colors.
Portrait of Josette Gris, Juan Gris, 1916, From the collection of: Museo Reina Sofia
Cubism was changing in 1916, and he portrayed that time period with the painting of his wife Josette. This is a follow up from his other painting before the war "Woman with Mandolin." His style of painting changed from the outcome of nationalism in the Great War. Portrait of Josette Gris is symbolic for that reason.
The painting is geometric but with more circled shapes. The lines are softer and less aggressive for a calmer mood. There is barely any negative space as Josette takes up all positive space. The color scheme is analogous and they are completely desaturated except for the few brown spots of the painting. It has a light value to the look even when there is a lot of black in the painting. The texture looks flat so it has to be a smoother feel.
Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan, Juan Gris (José Victoriano González Pérez), Spanish, 1887 - 1927, 1915, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art
This is a still life painting that mixed the inside and outside environment into one. There is no reason stated for why it was created, but this experiment became an advance in his work.
The paintings shapes are all geometric with sharp lines and edges. There is a lot of positive space with little negative space. The colors are saturated and the scheme is analogous with the yellow green up to the blue on the color wheel but then is also analogous with the yellows, oranges, reds and browns.
Labeled as on of his finest pieces, Young Man with a Fountain Pen portrays a writer at his desk with a load of papers and the fountain pen. It was made during the time in which he analyzed cubism and experimented with new ideas.
The visual elements are all geometrically measured with a few round edges. It seems to be in the middle of the light and dark value range scale as neutral even if some colors have a lighter value. The colors aren't brightly saturated and come to be analogous across all the colors. The texture seems soft because of the fluidity of color.
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