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USE THE 'LOOKING AT PICTURES' QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU

• Cubism was an early 20th-century school of painting and sculpture in which the subject is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form. The paintings and sculptures were created largely by use of intersecting and often transparent viewpoints. Cubes and cones are often used to creates the images.

COMPARE THESE TWO CUBIST PICTURES...ANALYSE BOTH AND FIND SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
 

Juan Gris "Portrait of Picasso " 1912
Oil on canvas

 Picasso "Portrait of Ambroise Vollard " Oil on canvas

Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were seen simultaneously