Before Class 3/22

For this beautiful day, we had to open the book, dust it off a bit, and read about the influence of modern art (chapter 13). Here are the main points I got out of the reading:

Cubism:

-Pablo Picasso began the movement with a series of works that "applied elements of ancient Iberian and African tribal art to the human figure"(Meggs Pg. 248).

-Cubism brought new ideas and techniques in using different planes of the space of medium.

-Paul Cezanne was another major influence on Cubism because of his "treat nature in terms of the cylinder and the sphere and the cone" ideals.

-Analytical Cubism evolved from the original cubism by using perceptions to help create their works.

- Synthetic Cubism followed

Futurism:

-Created by Italian poet Filippo Marinetti