Question:
What would you say are the three most influential/important cubist paintings?
anonymous
2012-07-12 17:01:57 UTC
What would you say are the three most influential/important cubist paintings?
Three answers:
Sport
2012-07-12 17:51:58 UTC
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Guernica

Three Musicians

(All by Pablo Picasso)
angela l
2012-07-13 09:10:58 UTC
Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. (Not Guernica which is painted in a Surreal style)

Braque: Viaduct at L'Estaque (oil on canvas, 1908), Pompidou Center

Juan Gris (sometimes referred to as the Third Musketeer of Cubism)

Violin and Glass (oil on canvas, 1915) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

If you would prefer another important Picasso cubist work instead of Juan Gris then I would go for Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Still Life with Chair Caning (oil on canvas, 1912)

Musée Picasso, Paris

In this work, for the first time, real objects - like newspaper, material (looked like cane of chair) were stuck onto the canvas - and collages were born.
- Petit Fantôme Aimé ♐ -
2012-07-15 01:01:03 UTC
Heu.... In my opinion... They are the Cézanne's work title "Victor Chocquet", Braque's work title "Houses at L'Estaque" and Picasso's work title "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"



The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane. Braque's 1908 work "Houses at L'Estaque" as composed of cubes. In Braque's work, the volumes of the houses, the cylindrical forms of the trees, and the tan-and-green colour scheme are reminiscent of Paul Cézanne's landscapes, which deeply inspired the Cubists in their first stage of development, until 1909. It was "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", a work painted by Picasso in 1907, that forecast the new style; in this work, the forms of five female nudes became fractured, angular shapes. As in Cézanne's art, perspective was rendered by means of colour, the warm reddish browns advancing and the cool blues receding....



The period from 1910 to 1912 is referred to as Analytical Cubism. Paintings executed during this period showed the breaking down, or analysis, of form. Right-angle and straight-line construction were favoured, though occasionally some areas of the painting appeared sculptural, as in Picasso's "Girl with a Mandolin" (1910). Colour schemes were simplified, tending to be nearly monochromatic (hues of tan, brown, gray, cream, green, or blue preferred) in order not to distract the viewer from the artist's primary interest--the structure of form itself. The monochromatic colour scheme was suited to the presentation of complex, multiple views of the object, which was now reduced to overlapping opaque and transparent planes. These planes appear to ascend the surface of the canvas rather than to recede in depth. Forms are generally compact and dense in the centre of the Analytical Cubist painting, growing larger as they diffuse toward the edges of the canvas, as in Picasso's "Portrait of Ambroise Vollard".



A crucial change in Braque's art came in the fall 1907, when he rediscovered Paul Cézanne at the memorial exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne and the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery. At this time, he also met Picasso. In the late work of Cézanne, both Braque and Picasso saw a new geometrization of form and new spatial relationships that were to become the basis of cubism. Spurred by his close association with Picasso, whose "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" has been called "the first painting of the 20th century," Braque transformed his style radically. Within three years, Picasso and Braque invented analytic cubism, a new, completely nonillusionistic and nonimitative method of depicting the visual world.



A lover of Cézanne works just like Angela...


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