How was cubism expressed?

Answer 1

Georges Braque, similarly to Picasso, was very much affected by the shift in art and literature that modernism was bringing. In literature, there was a crisis of language. Why did three letters c-a-t actually come to mean the furry creature on our couch? Writers such as Faulkner and Wallace Stevens tried to redefine the way we use language. The cubists had the similar crisis. Why should a natural drawing of a fruit bowl be the only way we can show the fruit bowl? Braque and Picasso used cubism to show the multi-faceted nature of the objects they were representing. They made the viewer look at the subject differently than they would in a basic representation. Some of his work is less understandable than others, but a look at his body of work would provide some clues as to what some of the figures/objects in the art are. Interestingly enough, Braque's day job was painting veneer finished items (false marble top, false wood, etc). He counterfeited nature exactly during his actual job, but his paintings were a reinvention of representation. Just some food for thought.

- I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness… …I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. ( a statement given to the American Gelett Burgess, late in 1908, fh)

* artist quotes from 'The wild men of Paris' in 'The Architectural Record', May 1910; as quoted in "Braque", Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, London 1968, p. 34

- What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still life's, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space. I wrote about this moreover 'When a still life is no longer within reach, it ceases to be a still life… '. …For me that expressed the desire I have always had to touch a thing, not just to look at it. It was that space that attracted me strongly, for that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.

* artist quotes from a conversation with Dora Vallier, 1954; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough -", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , London, 1963

Answer 2

Together with Picasso he came up with the idea.

Answer 3

The first period of Cubism used oil painting. The second period was mainly collage + drawing.

Answer 4

Georges Braque's style is Cubism. He and Pablo Picasso are known as the fathers of Cubism.

Answer 5

Instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, they depicted the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Answer 6

because he invented cubism so he is important to cubismi hope i answered yuo bye

Answer 7

he did not