ART 234 Lecture 4: Synthetic Cubism #4
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Synthetic cubism: the stuff of modern life #4. Denser towards the center clues you in to the gure. Graphic sign system that is giving you information but doesn"t look the way it does in the natural world. Oil cloth and a rope sticking a piece of outside reality to a piece of cubist work. Table top with a knife, wine glass, lemon and pipe. Love glassware because can see through it. Letters from newspaper j o u from le. J o u sounds like french word for to play . Oil clothe loos as if you can look through it. Why should artists imitate reality when a machine can do it. Pipe, glass and bottle of rhum, 1914, picasso vs. Glass and shadow of glass allude to. Creates imitation of woodgrain on paper access to another dimension. All objects are sitting on the table. Forms become larger and simpler because he is working with paper.
