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Monday, 5 October 2009

The History of Cubist Painters/Paintings

For one of my recent ideas I have been interested in creating a digital portrait using a cubist art style. When we mention cubist artists people immediately assume Pablo Picasso. Although Picasso is one of the main artists recognised for this style, cubism has been taken up from many other artist who use this style in thier art.

The Cubism art style was initially influenced by composites of geometric landscapes.
In the history of art, Cubism started at the end of post renaissance and the beginning of the early days of modern art. It is debated whether Picasso or Georges Braque invented this intellectual style of painting in the 1900's.


Posted by Adam Bailey at 10:25

1 comments:

tutorphil said...

Interim Review - Unit 1: Anatomy 06/10/09

Hi Adam,

First things first; in comparison with some of your classmates' creative development, your blog is feeling rather 'under-nourished'! Throughout, there is a rather superficial relationship to the complexities of portraiture; that is not to suggest that you haven't tried some interesting things, but what I'm really looking for (and not finding) is your 'rationale' and critical reflection on the decisions your making; for instance, in one preparatory portrait, you remove your eyes and mouth - but for what purpose; the visual consequence of this for the viewer (i.e. me) is a message about blindness/muteness - a claustrophobic image; and then you paint it yellow to express a 'mood' - I know these images are as much derived from your Photoshop classes as from a conceptual standpoint, but still, they do seem rather 'casual' - likewise, the Pin Art sequence... You need to better express your ambition for this project - you need to resolve your understanding of constructing identity in a single frame and then develop your visual strategy via preparatory portraits. My experience tells me that you're not quite as engaged as you say you are; for instance, you suggest that you've been trying to work out a question for your essay 'for weeks', but there's no thorough research on your blog to support your conceptual 'struggle' or demonstrate that you've been working hard to resolve the riddle for yourself.

Can I suggest, in the time remaining to you, that you focus more precisely on the challenges of this project and use your blog to show me how you take an initial idea from preliminary sketches through to a resolved image; I want to see your rationale for communicating your identity expressed clearly; I want to see you explore the visual language required to express your identity, and I want to see you gathering together research/evidence that will ensure you produce a solid, well-argued written assignment.

Regarding your essay proposals; the first is so general as to spell disaster for a 1,500 assignment; you could explore the notion of the soul in the portrait more specifically, by looking at superstitions surrounding human representation in the arts (mirror superstition, portrait superstition etc); similarly, you might look at two artists or works, one of which belongs to the tradition of portraiture as being 'a window into the soul' and a more modern example of an artist (such as Cindy Sherman), who proves the opposite point...

6 October 2009 at 10:31

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