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Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
In The Rise if Cubism Daniel Henry Kahnweiler writes of the similarities between African art with Cubist painting and sculpture: In the years 1913 and 1914 Braque and Picasso attempted to eliminate the use of color as chiaroscuro, which had still persisted to some extent in their painting, by amalgamating painting and sculpture.
Still Life with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1913. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Gallery 905. [1] The work was created in the small French town of Céret in the Pyrenees. Céret was popular with artists, including Picasso, who paid a visit there in the ...
Braque's work was characterized by his use of illusionistic techniques, exemplified in this painting by the trompe l'oeil image of a nail from which the still life depicted on canvas appears to hang, thereby emphasizing the deliberate two-dimensionality of space. With this canvas, Braque postulates and actualizes the main idea of analytical ...
Only after 1914 did Cubism come almost exclusively to be identified with a single-minded insistence on the isolation of the art-object in a special category with its own laws and its own experience to offer, a category considered above life. It is Cubism in this later period that has most to tell anyone concerned with the problems of Modernism ...
It is acknowledged as a masterpiece of analytical cubism It presents a string instrument, the mandora, and its subject is typical of the Cubist painters' interest in the depiction of musical instruments. Braque explained his own interest: "In the first place because I was surrounded by them, and secondly because their plasticity, their volumes ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art. A.E. Gallitan Collection, 1952 A.E. Gallitan Collection, 1952 Three Musicians , also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks , is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso .
Still Life, also referred to as Glass and Guitar (French: Verre à pied et guitare), is a 1911 oil painting by the French artist Georges Braque, now in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (inventory number 55.974.0.720). It was the first cubist painting ever bought by a public collection of France. [2]