The wrongness of images, or our apperceptions of them: What appears to be a painting is actually a photograph. What appear to be two-dimensional painted lines, curves, rectangles, arabesques, planes of color, or abstract geometries with trompe l’oeil shadows are in fact three-dimensional objects carefully arranged, brightly illuminated, and flattened into a beguiling single plane by the lens of a camera.Read More →
František Zelenka (1896 – 1942) was a Czech architect and stage and graphic designer. He was born in Prague. Zelenka’s career in the theatre was initiated by K.H. Hilar, the National Theatre director in Prague in 1926.Read More →
Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to have run from about 1912 to 1914, characterised by simpler shapes and brighter colours.Read More →
the beginning of the 20th century. Czech Cubism embraced architecture, design and decorative arts and flourished most prolifically in the years immediately preceding and following the outbreak of the First World War.Read More →
The following are 5 popular topics that are published on Google and Arts and Culture. It is one of my favourite parts of the Google universe.Read More →
Among the ideas that have influenced the painting of the last 100 years, perhaps the most important has been Cubism. The name was attached as an epithet to the efforts of a group of painters in Paris.Read More →
Aleksandr Rodchenko was a commercial as well as a fine artist. He was a proponent of the Russian constructivist art movement. The term ” constructivism” came about because the artists claimed they riveted the images together in the manner of engineers not artists. In the early years of the RussianRead More →
Cubism was one of the most influential movement in Western art this century. Beginning with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque in Paris between 1906 and 1908, cubism gathered momentum and soon spread to the rest of Europe and America. The movement s rejection of illusionistic representation in favourRead More →
Learn about this topic in these articles: analysis of forms In Cubism …is often referred to as Analytical Cubism. During this period, the work of Picasso and Braque became so similar that their paintings are almost indistinguishable. Source: Analytical Cubism | art | BritannicaRead More →
I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships. Summary of Analytic Cubism In 1920 the leading promoter of Georges Braque’s and Pablo Picasso’s work, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, published his book Der Weg Zum Kubismus ( The Rise of Cubism ). It would become the first authoritative textRead More →
Analytical Cubism is the second period of the Cubism art movement that ran from 1910 to 1912. It was led by the “Gallery Cubists” Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. This form of Cubism analyzed the use of rudimentary shapes and overlapping planes to depict the separate forms of the subjectsRead More →
