Cubism in quotes - the French art-movement explained / described; free resource, art history

**Cubism in quotes - the art movement and its artists, shortly described and explained in quotes + images ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Cubism started c. 1906 in France with the first efforts of Picasso and Georges Braque to renew art. The French art-movement and the Cubist artists are here explained and described in short art-quotes of Dutch art-critic Jacob Bendien. He was a contemporary of Cubism and described the meaning, goals and characteristics of French Cubism and it artists.

Characteristic for Cubism was the primary focus on form; it restrained colors, and certainly the primary colors! The Cubist artist saw Cubism as the new ‘classical’ art for the future. This idea was immediately firmly attacked by the Italian Futurist artists in Paris, who criticized Cubism as an obsolete static art.
Important famous Cubist artists were Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Metzinger, Gleizes and Delaunay.
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Some selected text-quotes on the art movement Cubism in French, by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes, in the PDF:

• ’The history of Cubism consists chiefly of the ongoing battle between the two dimensional plane and three-dimensional nature, between the artists painting construction and the emotional contact with nature.'

• ’When composing their mathematical figures into a painting, the Cubists tried to emphasize the construction as much as possible. Sharp corners and planes that expose the construction are not rounded off or smoothed into gradual transitions, but rather they are accentuated.'

• ’When Cubists painted a portrait ‘en face’, but felt the nose was better shown ‘en profile’, this was simply turned in the plane. Thus parts of the front, side and back were all portrayed in one painting.'
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  selection of more free art resources on Cubism and the cubist artists:

  • an extended description of Cubism on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism
  • selected artist-quotes on Cubism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cubism
  • Cubist art-images, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/cubism
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
    translation from Dutch, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]