![]() This resulted in foreign, angular shapes and a vivid colour palette. He was much less interested in the spiritual or social symbolism of African art rather than the exaggerated abstraction of the human figure. To enliven his work, he not only abandoned all concepts of perspective and proportion, he also drew on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, specifically African art. He believed that the traditions of Western art had exhausted their use and that by now they were overrated. Picasso was also largely influenced by tribal African art. This is a key characteristic of cubism art: the attempt to show all six sides of a cube at the same time. What he wanted to show was the process of seeing, and to do so, he composed a mixture of several different simultaneous views of the objects to be viewed in one single moment. Art had to extend beyond being the realistic portrayal of objects. Picasso believed that painting also had to evolve, it had to move beyond the constraints of perspective and proportions. The values of traditional painting were being challenged by the new emerging technology. Photography could achieve the same effect, in less time and less cost. As the painting was done from a fixed viewpoint, the result was frozen, captured in time. The fact that drawing from only viewpoint would limit the options. With his revolutionary idea, Picasso created a new concept for artists to come: the freedom to create rather than imitate.Picasso believed that perspective was an obstacle to progress. What Picasso did instead was depict the objects as a combination of many different views to create the illusion of painting from multiple perspectives at the same time. ![]() ![]() Picasso had ditched any concepts of perspective and proportion, concepts that had been religiously practiced since the Renaissance. Pablo Picasso’s first cubist painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon had broken all of the traditional rules that artists had followed, especially the one that defined art as imitation rather than creation. This lead to Picasso rejecting the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. Specifically for the painters, the problem of how to capture more than just the fleeting moment, but how to capture the current. The dilemma facing the modern artist was simple how to depict the dynamic lifestyle of the contemporary world. The horizons of society grew ever larger. Society was now in a constant state of change with new discoveries in science, advances in technology and mobility. The world was radically changing, the pace of life and the way society perceived the nature of time, all of it was changing. They felt the need to expand their perspective, to extend the possibilities of art in much the same way how the rise of new technologies were extending the possibilities of society. A reason for why Picasso and Braque strived to find something fresh. Despite being so influential, cubism was influenced by the art movements of old and the need to move forward.Ĭubism didn’t just appear out of thin air, there was a reason for why it came to be. Cubism was perhaps the most influential art movements of the 20th century as it led to the exploration of more abstract concepts and philosophies abstractism was a key part in 20th century art. The innovative movement aimed to establish a new order in the world of painting and sculpting, one that was completely different from any style or technique which had existed up to that point. It also paved the way for similar movements in both music and literature. ![]() It was the pathway to century defining art movements, such as: surrealism, abstract expressionism and pop art. An art style that went on to influence others for generations to come. ![]()
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