1911 Flashcards
What inspired Picasso in his painting of Gertrude Stein and later Les Demoiselles?
Two Iberian stone heads stolen by Géry Pieret from the Louvre.
What word was used to describe the shattering of the surfaces of objects and their amalgamation to the space around them?
Analysis, and later Analytical Cubism.
What does the analytical phase of cubism reveal about the color palette of Picasso and Braque?
It went from being a full spectrum to very monocromatic such as in Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and The Portuguese paintings.
What happens to the visual space in the paintings?
It is flattened like a roller pressed all the volume out of the bodies, bursting their contours open so that what little surrounding space remains could flow into their eroded boundaries.
There is the visual vocabularly used to describe the physical remains of this explosive process.
How did writers attempt to justify the move from realism to cubism?
They say you are getting more, not less knowledge of an object. Natural vision only lets you see an object from one vantage point. Cubism lets you see the object from many perspectives without moving around it. Conceptual knowledge vs. Perceptual knowledge.
What is the unity of cubism?
The fusion of two seemingly irreconcilable opposites: the dipicted volumes of real objects and the flatness of the painter’s own physical object, which is the canvas plane of the picture.
