Cubism described, explained in artist quotes - free resource, French art history

Cubism in France - described and explained in quotes of the involved cubist artists, and selected art images - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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The Cubist artists describe in their art quotes the characteristics and goals of French Cubism. Picasso and Braque tell us about the early start of Cubism, c. 1906/7. Later the Cubists like Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, Robert Delaunay, Malevich and Piet Mondrian presented their view on a later and more developed Cubism.

Moreover, a very animated art-debate ‘Cubism-Futurism’ was going on those years among the Paris’ artists. This debate illustrates very well the characteristics of both art-styles. That’s why I selected here also some quotes of the Italian Futurist artists Carra, Boccioni, and Severini who criticized Cubism in France. moreover I added artist quotes of Malevich, Chagall, Franz Marc and even Chaim Soutine, the wild gesture-painter because, they all reacted on contemporary Cubism in France, then…
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Some selected artist-quotes on Cubism in France - as a short introduction of its extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I couldn’t portray a women in all her natural loveliness… .I haven’t the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight…’ - quote of Georges Braque, in the article ‘The wild men of Paris’, 1908

• ’Many think that cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it. Cubism is not either a seed or a foetus, but an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life.’ - quote of Pablo Picasso: in ‘Picasso Speaks.’ in The Arts, New York, May 1923. p. 323

• ’I do not consider myself a Cubist either because I have come to the conclusion that cubes are not always made for expressing the thought of the brain and of the feeling of the spirit… .I capture all these impressions (the visual sensations, in the modern city) without any hurry to transfer to the canvas’ - quote of of Francis Picabia, in: ‘How I see New York’, in ‘The New York American’, New York 30 March 1913, p. 11
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  selection of free art-resources on Cubism in France:

  • French Cubism, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism
  • Cubism, described in artist-quotes, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cubism
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]