Cubism

圖片: http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T02/T02318_9.jpg
Tittle: Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece
Clarinette et bouteille de rhum sur une cheminée
年份: 1911
畫家: Georges Braque 1882-1963
介紹:
A clarinet lies on a mantelpiece at the centre of this playful work. In front of it stands a bottle with the characters, RHU, the first three letters of the French word for rum. The word Valse (Waltz) introduces the idea of dancing, reinforcing the theme of music evoked by the clarinet and suggestions of treble and bass clefs. The scrolled form in the lower right-hand corner could stand for either the bracket of the mantelpiece or the head of an instrument.


圖片: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-cubisme_en/images/xl/1A04256.jpg
Tittle: The Guitar Player
Le joueur de guitare
年份: 1910
畫家: Pablo Picasso
介紹:
Painted during the summer of 1910 while Picasso was on holiday at Cadaques, this canvas, as though drenched by the Catalonian sun, uses distinctively Cubist means to evoke the staccato rhythms of music. Conjuring up the sound of frenzied guitar playing, the lines that articulate the canvas transform it into an artwork that moves away from figuration to become an almost abstract image.
The facets that broke up the volumes in Picasso’s previous works are fewer in number and pared down in shape. They no longer appear as an outcome of decomposition, but assert themselves and structure the canvas with a vigorous architecture of lines and angles.
That said, some elements help clearly identify the guitarist figure. His head perched on the cylinder, at the top of the painting, his shoulders, his arms, right down to the neck of the guitar at the centre, all these clues attest the fact that Picasso, just like Braque, refused to create a painting with no connection to reality. In his later works, Picasso would invent all kinds of signs that, each in their own way, made reference to reality.

2008-12-29 14:39:11 補充：
圖片:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_cube_1.jpg
Tittle:
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
年份:
1907
畫家:
Pablo Picasso

2008-12-29 14:41:12 補充：
介紹:
Although still a transitional work, this large painting may be called the first Cubist picture. Its combined influences are manifold, ranging from El Greco, the bathers of Cézanne, and Iberian and African art that Picasso had recently seen at the ethnographic museum in Paris.

2008-12-29 14:43:04 補充：
Picasso made innumerable preparatory studies for this work. The title, given years later by a friend of Picasso, is an ironic reference to a cabaret or maison publique on the Carrer d'Avinyó (Avignon Street) in Barcelona.

2008-12-29 14:43:40 補充：
The dynamic power of this work, its expressionistic violence and the barbaric intensity of the five women, especially the two on the right, was unsurpassed in European art at that time.

2008-12-29 14:43:58 補充：
呢度可以搵到Cubism既一d資料
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=80
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism