Art: Cubism: Influences and Legacies Flashcards

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What type of Cubism is represented by Picasso’s Ma Jolie?

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High Analytic Cubism

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Where did the name Cubism come from?

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Art critic Louis Vauxcelles made a denigrating comment about a series of Braque’s landscape paintings, calling them “little cubes”.

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Where did Cubist artists exhibit together in 1911?

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“Salle 41” at the Salon des Indépendants.

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Who were the Cubist artists inspired by?

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Paul Cezanne, who approached the same subjects over and over, abstracting landscapes and still life scenes to their base forms.

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What does Analytic Cubism refer to?

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the works that Picasso and Braque made from 1909 to 1911. These paintings were based on traditional subjects, but dissected their formal elements and rearranged them on the canvas.

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When did Cubists start to introduce collage, and what did this lead into?

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1912, and it led to Synthetic Cubism. Things like wallpaper, newspapers, and fabrics were incorporated.

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Who were some artists associated with Cubism, and what did the style of all these artists have in common?

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Juan Gris and Fernand Légar. The Cubists had wildly varied styles, but were unified in their challenge to traditional ideas about representation.

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What artistic movements did Cubism inspire?

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Dada, Constructivism, Futurism, and Surrealism. It even went as far as to inspire Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera while he was living in Paris.

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