1. CUBISM
“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.” ~Jacques Lipchitz

2. Cubism A name suggested by Henri Mattisse in 1909
A non-objective approach to painting
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1906
Pre-Cubist (1906) – emphasizing the process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone)
Analytical Cubism ( ) – transpose the three- dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas.
Cubist palette was limited to monochromatic scale colors, dominated by grays and browns.
Synthetic Cubism ( s) – focused on the construction (new textures and materials) and not the represented objects in the painting – became more abstract and color expanded to many other colors

3. Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

4. Pablo Picasso, "Three Musician's", 1921

5. Pablo Picasso

6. Popova,
Two Figures

7. Juan Gris (1887-1927) Violin and Glass (oil on canvas, 1915)

8. Students started by drawing a large, fairly simple image in the center of their paper

9. Then they cut out a simple shape, which may or may not be somehow related to their chosen subject,
out of cardstock.

10. They traced this shape all over their design in order to break-up or 'fracture' the image.
Below you can see this student used a skull for her main subject, and a bone shape to break it up.

11. Then, using colored pencils, students chose their colors and practiced creating gradations from light to dark- simply vary the pressure of the colored pencil.

12. Then start coloring each section- change colors when you encounter a line.