Pablo Picasso was a pioneering Spanish artist who developed Cubism with Georges Braque in the early 1900s. Cubism depicts objects from multiple perspectives simultaneously through simplifying forms and breaking them up into geometric planes. Notable Cubist works by Picasso include Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered the first Cubist painting, and Guernica, his symbolic anti-war painting depicting the bombing of a small Spanish village. Characteristics of Cubism include presenting abstracted, rearranged views of simplified, geometric shapes from multiple angles with a "broken mirror effect".

1. Grade 4
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
&
Cubism

2. ABSTRACT ART
• CUBISM- Cubism, an abstract movement
in art, developed in the early 1900's It is
based on the theory that objects should be
captured by showing multiple points of
view simultaneously. Forms are simplified
and broken apart into planes, then
reassembled in an abstract form
emphasizing geometric shapes. The
planes are sometimes tilted by means of
shading. This was the first time collage
become important in modern art.

3. Picasso’s
Periods
Blues Cubism
Period Period
Garçon à la pipe
Rose
Period Dora Maar
The Old Guitarist

4. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973):
Country- Spain
Movements- Cubism (after his blue period and rose period)
Media- Drawing, painting,
sculpture, ceramics, mosaics,
stage design and graphic arts
Major Style & Contribution to Art
• With Braque he developed
cubism, collage and “found art”
• Influences- Early work
influenced by Post
Impressionists. However,
Cezanne and African sculpture
inspired his cubist works.
Interesting Fact- Picasso created
more than 20,000 works of art in
his lifetime. In 1913, at The
Armory Show in NY he
introduced the new style of
cubism and caused a sensation
Picasso's "Girl with a
Mandolin"

5. Picasso-Les Demoiselles D'Avignon,
1907, oil on canvas, 234 cm W x 244 cm H, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Considered the first cubist
artwork,
• The painting depicts five naked
prostitutes in a brothel
• their figures are composed of
flat, splintered planes rather than
rounded volumes, their eyes are
lopsided or staring or
asymmetrical, and the two
women at the right have
threatening masks for heads.
• The space, too, which should
recede, comes forward in jagged
shards, like broken glass. In the
still life at the bottom, a piece of
melon slices the air like a scythe.

6. Guernica
1937, oil on canvas, 7.77 m W x 3.5 m H, Prado Museum, Madrid.
• symbolic painting of the horrors of war
• On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on
behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque
village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's
burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosives
and bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they
run from the crumbling buildings. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed
or wounded.

7. Characteristics of
Cubism:
Abstract
Broken Mirror Effect
Rearranged
Geometric
More than one view
Simplified Shapes

8. Abstract: does not look like real life
Self Portrait

9. Broken Mirror Effect:
Three Musicians
Braque:
Houses at La Estaque 1909
Ambroise Vollard by Braque

10. Rearranged:
Acrobat
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse

11. Geometric Shapes:
Jacqueline with Crossed Hands
Girl with a Boat

12. More than one view:
Nusch Éluard Marie-Therese Walter

13. Simplified Shapes:
Harlequin

14. Abstract
Broken Mirror Effect
Rearranged
Geometric
More than one view
Simplified Shapes