The introduction of Pablo Picasso to the art world was a turning point in art history. Until then, paintings were judged on their ability to look like real life, like this painting:
Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball (1628) – Pieter Claesz
However, Picasso and Barque thought of a new way of seeing things. They came up with the idea of analytical cubism, and the idea that an object has many sides and a painting should show all sides to more accurately depict the object. Instead of seeing an object from one wat, we can see it from the sides, the top and the bottom and put them all together in one image. The result was this:
Man with a Guitar - Georges Barque
Many small “cubes” show us many angles of one object at the same time.
This is a great book about the life of Pablo Picasso:
To practice analytical cubism, we used address labels to help us express the three different views of an object at the same time. On each sheet of labels, students either drew an object from observation or memory from three different angles. There was great observational drawing going on!
Then, they peeled and stuck the stickers on, creating a new work of art with three different views of an object similar to Picasso and Barque’s analytical cubism paintings.
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