Cubism Portrait

Cezanne once wrote a friend saying "May I repeat what I told you here? Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere and the cone..."  His notion that nature could be renederd solidly using basic geometric forms is part of what caused Cubists like Picasso to paint using twisted perspective.  Twisted perspective means that you depict an object from more than one angle simultaneously.  The effect in Picasso's case was that the images look like they are broken up reflections in a shattered mirror.  This lead to one of his contemporaries Henri Matisse saying that the cubist paintings looked like they were painted with little cubes.

Student Samples Below
cubist_sketch_minervini.jpg (191261 bytes) cubist_emulation_figure_lange.jpg (118354 bytes) dbbrutman_cubist_figure.jpg (228009 bytes)
Chris Minervini Danielle Lange David Brunnell-Brutman
cubist_figure_sebesky.JPG (125775 bytes)
Olivia Sebesky		 cubist_figure_e_cecere.JPG (130417 bytes)
Elisa Cecere

Art Historical Examples

    
picassovollard.jpg (69719 bytes) PICASSO_LANDSCAPE_CUBIST_HORTEBRO.jpg (50098 bytes) PICASSO_MA_JOLIE.jpg (80212 bytes)
Picasso: Vollard Picasso: Landscape Picasso: Ma Jolie