Reading Blog-Cubist movement

I decided to do my reading blog on the modernist movement cubism. The reason I chose to cubism is I really appreciate the expression and messages that are portrayed by cubism artist. Picasso’s Guernica is an expression of the controversial and tragic bombing of Guernica in Spain. In fact, it is such a tragedy that this event even had to happen and I think that Picasso sums up the calamity of that horrific event. Picasso’s Guernica has such emotion and passion it the artwork. His ability to us different symbols and bring in the concepts of previous artwork such as the Madonna and child demonstrates his artistic abilities as well as his emotional connection to the artwork. Most of the symbols used in the artwork demonstrates the innocence and unsullied of the bombing victims as well as the evil role that Spain played in the tragic event. Picasso was so heavily driven by this horrific event that he was able to recreate this tragic event in such an emotional way in less than four months. Anyway, on a lighter note, the greatest concept about cubism art is its ability to portray three-dimensional artwork using only two dimensions. Cubism is able to portray their artwork in a 3D manner by their proportional expression of the different characters and shapes used in the paintings. They portray their objects and characters in geometrical sharp edged shapes that would not generally portray the normal shapes of the characters/objects. This concept of cubism is to express the objects or characters in different perspectives that may more so represent how the mind views the objects. It also seems as if the figures are broken up much as if glass were shattered and then re-assembled in an unusual or abstract manner much like Picasso’s Women playing mandolin or his Three Musicians piece. As you can see from their work, cubist artist were able to paint different angles that allows the viewer to see many sides of the figures in the artwork. This also gives the artwork its many perspectives that cubism style strived to give to its artwork as well as a fuller, more detailed meaning explanation of the subject. Cubist artist generally wanted to break past the barriers of time and space to develop their idea of artwork with many perspectives. As far as the cubism movement is concerned, the movement began in the first two centuries of the 20th century. In fact, Picasso is thought to be the founder of the cubism movement as well as the foundation for the development of abstract art. The cubist movement was in fact a counter against the realistic movement and is thought most radical, innovative, and influential style of twentieth-century art. There are generally two forms or styles of the cubistic artwork, the analytic cubism and the synthetic cubism. The analytic cubism is generally, what individuals think about when considering cubism artwork. Analytic cubism is artwork that is developed around the idea of breaking down object and re-assembling them in a more abstract form. One example of analytic cubism is the Nude Descending the Staircase. The other form, synthetic cubism is more concerned with assembling pieces or objects available into abstract piece of work instead of the breaking down of the objects. Usually the synthetic cubism is the assembly of normal, everyday objects into the 3D perspectives that is common to cubism artwork. Personally, what I like about the cubism movement is in fact their ability to incorporate many different perspectives of the artwork. In some work, it is like you can see completely around the subjects in the work. To me, it is the most expressive style of artwork, especially since many cubist artwork were outcries against the many tragedies that were occurring during the cubist time period.