Cubism (Basic Art)

Cubism (Basic Art)

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Fractured forms: Deconstructing perspective with Picasso and peers</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom">Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as<strong> the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century</strong>. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create <strong>flattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images</strong>.<br /><br />Picasso’s celebrated painting <em>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</em> is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to <strong>multiple different viewpoints</strong>. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: <strong>Analytical Cubism</strong>, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later <strong>Synthetic Cubism</strong>, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper.<br /><br />This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including <strong>Pablo Picasso</strong>, <strong>Georges Braque</strong>, <strong>Fernand Léger</strong>, <strong>Juan Gris</strong>, <strong>Albert Gleizes</strong>, and <strong>Robert Delaunay</strong>.</div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div id="series_text" class="margin-bottom"><strong>About the series:</strong><br />Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre series features: <ul> <li>approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions</li> <li>a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, and social events that took place during that period</li> <li>a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist</li> </ul> </div> </div>