1. Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

2. Cubism
In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

3. Georges Braque, The artist who pioneered Cubism

4. Picasso

5. Marcel Duchamp entitled Nude Descending a Staircase

7. What would be the best way today to protest against a war
What would be the best way today to protest against a war? How could you influence the largest number of people? In 1937, Picasso expressed his outrage against war with Guernica, his enormous mural-sized painting displayed to millions of visitors at the Paris World’s Fair. It has since become the twentieth century’s most powerful indictment against war, a painting that still feels intensely relevant today.

8. Chagall a Russian Artist during the cubism era depicts a fairy tale in which a cow dreams of a milk maid and a man and wife (one up right, one upside down) frolic in the work fields.

9. Writes art student Marleene Rubenstein, About Chagall who was Jewish, "An enriched reading is gained in knowing that the number seven is heavy with mystical overtones in Jewish expression, figuring strongly with the concept of creation. God created the world in seven days. The Kabbalah states that God created seven parallel universes to our physical one. The three fathers and the four mothers in the Bible gave birth to the Jewish nation. With his seven fingers, Chagall creates new worlds with paint on canvas."[*]

10. Chagall had his first art show in the United states in 1925 in New York City. He attended the graduation of the Pratt Art institute that year. My Grandmother met him and he was sitting next to her in the 1925 graduation photo. It was the year my grandmother got her BFA from Pratt. This is a print she bought from him for $45. It was the 13th pull our of 50 prints. Because of the “unlucky”superstition of the number “13” he did not sign the print.

11. And now some samples from Pinterest and Ms. Roberts

19. Cubism
How do we draw in that style. It looks so daunting. It is quite easy when you break it down. The following slides are a strep by step instruction on how to. You need to take notes!

20. Working from direct observation you will draw a portrait of your model from three vantage points. Start with an overall full-face view and block in the big geometric shapes marking where the features will be positioned (see figure 1).

21. Next move around your model so that you now have a three quarter view of their head. Draw the three quarter view features where the full-face features would normally be (see figure 2).

22.  Next move to a profile view and draw in some additional features in profile where they would appear in full-face view (see figure 3).

23. As the cubist portrait takes form you can begin to render in some of the values of the features (see figure 4).

24. At this point you can begin adding stylized detailed drawing from your minds eye to create interest (see figure 5).

25. You will continue to build the drawing by switching back and forth between drawing from direct observation and the minds eye, continually balancing the composition by adding value rendering, line and decorative detail (see figures 6 through 8).

27. Final

28. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism