Where the analysis of the object has been superseded by constructing or synthe sizing through overlapping of larger, more discrete forms that seem as if they may have been cut and pasted to the canvas. It is the influence of ~ which is clearest in the work of Wifredo Lam. The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti- figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and ~. The artists used collage to further challenge the viewer's understanding of reality and representation. This was the first Cubist collage and initiated the second major phase of Cubism termed ~. Geometric abstraction by and large has its origin in the flat shapes of ~, a mode completely foreign to Mondrian. The second phase of Cubism, after 1912, using Collage. In these, the object, which had initially been analysed and broken into parts, losing any recognizable features, was reconstituted.Īrt movement that appeared c.1885 in France, originating in poetry a reaction against both Reaslism and Impressionism, it aimed at the fusion of the real and spiritual worlds, the visual expression of the mystical. Other Cubist developments followed, such as so-called ~, and the distinctive Orphic Cubism. Starting with Picasso's Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, the Cubist movement got a new, more austere style of painting known as Analytical Cubism. Picasso and Braque discovered that through the repetition of "analytic" signs their work became more generalized, more geometrically simplified and flatter.Īnalytic and ~ - The Work of Cubist Artists It was developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and then copied by the Salon Cubists. Analytic Cubism is intellectual while ~ is playful. ~ is was less concerned with representation of the subject, and more with the use of various materials, textures and colors. Starting in 1912, surprising new elements begin to turn up in works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque: cut-up pieces of newspaper, wallpaper, construction paper, cloth, and even rope. ' Still Life with Chair Caning', 1912 (oil on canvas). Collage also initiated the synthetic phase of cubism. Colour is extremely important in the pieces' shapes because they become larger and more decorative.īy inventing collage and by introducing elements from the real world in his canvases, Picasso avoided taking cubism to the level of complete abstraction and remained in the domain of tangible objects. Works of this phase emphasize the combination, or synthesis, of forms in the picture. Interest in the above subject matter continued after 1912, during the phase called ~. More decorative than intellectual when compared to earlier Cubist efforts. The second phase of Cubism, ~, from 1913 through the 1920s, employed simpler forms and brighter colours than early Analytical Cubism. However, the guitars launched so much more.
Most art historians credit the Guitar series as the definitive transition from Analytic to Synthetic Cubism.
Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to run from about 1912 to 1914, characterised by simpler shapes and brighter colours Synthetic Cubism developed th rough a construction process rather than the analytical process and deconstruction of Analytical Cubism. Synthetic Cubism grew out of Analytical Cubism and the experimental nature of Collage.