Cubist:
Picasso and Braque started it, in work which
so captured
the elusive shading of human consciousness,
the complex autonomy of thought,
the paradoxical character of knowledge...
the concatenation of insights and discoveries
from which gradually emerged
nothing less than
a visual dialectic for twentieth-century art.
(William Rubin, Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism, pg. 15)
In the years around World War I, painters in Paris --Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris, Duchamp and others-- sought to escape the constraints of conventional spatial and temporal perspective by dismantling their subject matter into its geometric components and then rearranging those elements into abstract forms. Critics called the results 'Cubist' and
" In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context..."
"The metaphorical model of Cubism is the diagram: The diagram being a visible symbolic representation of invisible processes, forces, structures..."
"...overturned established conventions..."
"painting is not—or is no longer—the art of imitating an object by means of lines and colours, but the art of giving our instinct a plastic consciousness"
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Rock Portraits
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Spatchcocked B&W
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Spatchcocked Color
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Lynn English 1929
