MPC 203 Lecture 6: Week 6 Cubism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Combined Media
• Course: MPC 203
• Professor: Alana West

Document Summary

Painting moved from free color expression to irmer pictorial structure. End of 1901, blue period- monochromatic, traumatic life events. La vie: orig thought lost, his own works are in the painting, deals with human life cycle, lots of personal allusions. Family of saltimbanques: muted colors and barren landscape, performers on left, only one audience, not even looking, wandering person, gesture and body to explain ideas, guy in ballet position. Rose period, greater breadth of style, trying more approaches. Warm colors of mediterranean, can see him working out emotional response. Les damoiselles d"avignon: scared of syphilis and going blind, primal aspect, terrifying, uncomfortable with female sexuality, proto-cubism, transitional pic: experimenting with new ideas. Three women: takes lesson from gb on cubism, results in three women, earliest known attempt to systematically use cubism, reduced colors and abbreviated forms, collaborated so closely with gb, you couldn"t tell whose was whose.