Cubism powerpoint sample

Creator: Malevich, Kazimir, Russian, 1878-
1935
Title: Knife Grinder
Date: 1912-1913

Creator: Umberto Boccioni, Italian, 1882-1916
Title: Dynamism of a Soccer Player
Work Type: Painting
Date: 1913

Cubo-Futurism
• A common theme I have been seeing in the different Cubo-
Futurism Paintings is a wide variety of color and either solid
formations or a high amount of single colors blended or layered
without losing the original color. I sense of movement is also very
big, the Knife Grinder shows the action of grinding by a repeated
image of the hand, knife, or foot on paddle to show each moment
of movement. The solid shapes and designs tho individually may
not seem relevant to a human figure all come together to show the
act of sharpening a knife. I Love this piece because of the strong
colors and repeated imagery to show the act.
• In the Dynamism of a soccer player the sense of movement is sort
of around and into the center, I can imagine a great play of lights
and crystal clarity of the ideas of the objects moving. I almost feel
like this is showing not just one moment or one movement but
perhaps an entire soccer game in the scope of the 2D canvas.

Creator: Demuth, Charles,
1883-1935
Title: Aucassin and Nicolette
Date: 1921

Creator: Charles
Demuth
Title: My Egypt
Work Type: Paintings
Date: 1927

Precisionism
• Precisionism is the idea of making an artwork of another “artwork”
as in a piece of architecture , or machinery. The artist renders the
structure using very geometric and precise lines and they tend to
keep an element of realism in their work. Charles Demuth’s Artwork
both portray a piece of architecture that relates to processing,
farming or industry. He uses great amounts of shading in his forms
while keeping all the lines very precise and simplified.
• The Aucassiu and Nicolette has very toned down colors and is
barely on the edge of outlining. The background is colored more in
simple shapes filled with a blended color then of one solid
gradation.
• The painting, My Egypt, has much more dominant outlining
especially in the signifying lines of light. This overlapping sections
create a better sense of visual interest in what otherwise would be
a very simply architecture piece of art.

Creator: Picasso
Title: Portrait of Daniel-
Henry Kahnweiler
Date: 1910

Cubo-Futurism and Percisionism Vs.
“True” Cubism
• Between the three forms of Cubism there are both similarities and
differences. A common theme is the idea of line being used in and of itself
as a form of description. These artworks are all using both line and color
to create a form on a 2D surface. To compare the Knife Grinder and
Picasso’s Portrait of Daniel you can see that they both has a very solid line
and from that line becomes the shape that they use to describe the
subject. The Knife Grinder’s shapes are very solid and each shape is both a
representation and a thing by itself. The Dynamism is a fair amount
different but also more similar as where the portrait of Daniel is a line
then a color, the dynamism is more of movement, color, line, color.
• The artworks by Demuth are much more representational the Picasso’s
Daniel because I believe that Picasso wants his painting to be nothing but
what it is, a painting on canvas instead of a painting of Daniel. The two
works by Demuth are more of celebrating the ingenuity of the architecture
of the buildings and using the idea of it to create the background and
lighting.