Geometry and art. The Cubism

Hello! Today, I will speak to you about an artistic movement developed between 1907 and 1914, born in France and headed by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque among other painters as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Juan Gris and Guillaume Apollinaire. It is about Cubism and it is an essential trend, since it gives rise to the rest of the European avant-gardes of the 20th century. It was about the definitive break with traditional painting.

Cubism is considered the first vanguard, since it breaks with the last Renaissance statute in force at the beginning of the 20th century, the perspective. In cubist pictures, traditional perspective disappears. It treats the shapes of nature by means of geometric figures, fragmenting lines and surfaces. The so-called "multiple perspective" is adopted: all the parts of an object are represented in the same plane. There is no single point of view, there is no sense of depth.

During the period of Analytic Cubism (1909-1912), the importance of geometrization was such that the painting is almost monochrome in gray and ocher. The colors at this time were not interesting because the important thing was the different points of view and the geometrization, not the chromatism. They were elaborating a "new language" that analyzes reality and decomposes it into multiple geometric elements. They continued representing an infinity of objects such as chairs, bottles or human figures, although they decomposed them into geometric planes and volumes. They did not move away from representing reality, but wanted to represent it in the picture with a new language.

Georges Braque ("Piano et mandore" - 1909-1910). Period of Analytic Cubism 

Pablo Picasso ("Naturaleza muerta con gallo y cuchillo, 1947).