Synthetic Cubism
collage (coller = to paste)
papier collé = pasted paper
jouer = to play
Filippo Marinetti
non-objective art; abstract art
0.10 exhibition (Dec 1915)
Bolsheviks
Analytic Cubism
- Geometric shapes replacing figures
- Multiple perspectives at same time compressed
- Neutral colour palette
- Multiple dimensions represented through varying light sources
Synthetic Cubism
- Taking flat surface and adding with visual information
- Multiple types of materials
- Technique of collage
Picasso
Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912
- Rope glued to edge of canvas
- Juxtaposes objects from real world and painting illusionistic world. Sketchily.
- Printed chair caning, outlined with rope, painting on top of
Glass and Bottle of Suze, 1912
- Text, wallpaper, blank construction paper, actual label of bottle
- Main surface used as a wall in a cafe, signs and posters pasted over
- Cup – 2 and 3D
- White centre paper represents bottle
- Black shapes representing hands. Proportion to the bottle.
- Newspaper relative to day and time when piece was created. Highly politicised. Cholera epidemic.
- Taking everyday life and putting it into the craft.
- “Displace reality” – Picasso
Italian Futurism
- Militant group of Italian artists
- Multiple media. Adopted Analytic cubist technique.
- Analysis of form. Breakdown of form.
- Analytic Cubism with a sense of energy.
- Function of manifesto: To be extreme and call attention to ideas
- Glorified war, anarchy, killing. Unconstrained liberty.
- Efficiency with machines. Abandoning traditions.
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, bronze
- Not interested in anatomical accuracy
- Sense that sculpture has been freed from the block
- Bronze: traditional sculptures used, but Boccioni used it for mechanical, machine-like forms
- Alienation from human form from lack of arms
- Muscular but mechanical form
Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1913
- Movement in 2D
- Figure is central.
- Light areas: not figure
- Rounded forms = velocity of bike. Movement flattened.
Severini
Dynamic Hieroglyphic of Bal Tabarin, 1912
- French dance hall in Paris
- Feverish motion of chaos
- Kaleidoscopic. Break down of form.
- Female central figure. Gentleman right bottom foreground
- Hieroglyph: picture that represents a word, Individual parts: symbols.
Armored Train in Action, 1915
- Celebrating war. Opportunity for artistic creation.
- Faceless figures aiming guns off canvas, tank aiming the same way
- Streamline, aestheticised. Nature.
- Steam, smoke, wind
- Palette reduced to blues – yellows. Small amount of brown.
- Brightest part is section most affected by violence.
Balla
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
- Much more obvious subject matter. Dog on a leash, hem of dress.
- Less violent.
- Motion of leash, feet. Forms not fragmented. Study of movement.
- Same objective recreated over and over in different places