9/7/2023 0 Comments Cubism still lifeThe Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999. Thus, they countered the conventional devices of modeling and depth perspective, and drew attention to the absolute flatness of the two-dimensional plane. The fragments attached to the picture’s surface rarely followed the contours or silhouettes of the drawn motifs (glasses, bottles, or musical instruments), but, paradoxically, contradicted them. Through this technique the artists declared the independence of the painted or drawn image, and radically severed it from any attempt at representation. By pasting fragments of paper (newspaper, wallpaper, and wood-grained paper) onto their still-life compositions, they introduced real materials and textures into an art hitherto based on illusionistic renderings. The invention of the papier collé in 1912 by Braque and Picasso introduced a revolution in Western painting, whose repercussions are still being felt today. It further reminds us how often Picasso’s references to popular art are less metropolitan than provincial. ![]() It’s described as ‘an appropriate ‘password’ to the painters’ bohemian subculture, “for by its nature the instrument exemplify a folk-culture resistant to the domination of mass urban culture”. Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US. Obscurity of this painting almost guarantee that most observers would ‘overlook its appearance among other Cubist paintings’. ![]() Cut-and-pasted printed and painted paper, charcoal, chalk, and pencil on gessoed canvas, 95.2x120.3cm.
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