Cubism began
as an idea and then it became a style. Based on Paul Cézanne's three main
ingredients - geometricity, simultaneity (multiple views) and passage -
Cubism tried to describe, in visual terms, the concept of the Fourth Dimension.
Cubism is a kind of Realism. It is a
conceptual approach to realism in art, which aims to depict the world as it is
and not as it seems. This was the "idea." For example, pick up any
ordinary cup. Chances are the mouth of the cup is round. Close your eyes and
imagine the cup. The mouth is round. It is always round - whether you are
looking at the cup or remembering the cup. To depict the mouth as an oval is a
falsehood, a mere device to create an optical illusion. The mouth of a glass is
not an oval; it is a circle. This circular form is its truth, its reality. The
representation of a cup as a circle attached to the outline of its profile view
communicates its concrete reality. In this respect, Cubism can be considered
realism, in a conceptual, rather than perceptional way.
A good example can be found in Pablo
Picasso's Still Life with Compote and Glass (1914-15), where we see the
circular mouth of the glass attached to its distinctive fluted goblet shape.
The area that connects two different planes (top and side) to one another is passage.
The simultaneous views of the glass (top and side) is simultaneity. The
emphasis on clear outlines and geometric forms is geometricity. To know an
object from different points of view takes time, because you move the object
around in space or you move around the object in space. Therefore, to depict
multiple views (simultaneity) implies the Fourth Dimension (time).
Why did this style of art become so popular?
To my mind Cubism began so popular because of its extraordinariness. It was unusually.To fully express the ideas of things, artists rejected traditional perspective as an optical illusion and tried to give a comprehensive picture of their decomposition by combining several forms and its species in a single picture. They blur the distinction between form and space. Also they sought to enrich the reality of creating a new aesthetic of the object.
ОтветитьУдалитьIn general art became fashionable. People developed realism. It was interesting to create usual things in different way not as we can see them. Sometimes these works are really strange and it is cool
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