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Cubism, any opinions or tips.
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I tried a cubism piece and today, I decided to try the same piece as an oil painting but try to better it. I stained the canvas board and then finished drawing it at 5 o'clock this evening. I then started painting until the light went at 8. I wondered what experiences other people had had with this form of art. I don't really know that much. I have read some about it but sometimes the advice or a tip can say much more than a book full of words and that's why I always ask for opinions. I am trying to stick to traditional muted colours, which will be a challenge in itself because I'm a bright colour person. The other thing which I'm finding hard is not loosing the figures in the background. I've started working from the outside and intend to work inwards. Does this sound like a good idea. I'm not sure about light placement, I'm trying to figure that as I go along and on how it is looking. Thanks.
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I can’t offer any advice either!
Cubism or indeed the work of Picasso during that period isn’t a style that I’ve ever tried or intend to try, it doesn’t appeal to me - but good luck with it.
I doubt very much if you’ll get a lot of help with your questions on this forum, but you never know!
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by Alan Bickley
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Thanks Sylvia, I'm much better, I came out of isolation on Friday. My sense of smell came back yesterday. I am still quite tired but I expect my energy levels will return in a week or two.
Thanks for replying Alan, it's always worth asking I guess. I'm not even sure if I like cubism, I'm trying to do it to better understand it. It is a bit of a confusing sort of art to me at the moment, to figure out, to do and to look at. I think some of it looks quite ugly and yet some are very interesting and pleasant to look at.
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Thanks Ellen, I will have a look at the Bauhaus movement, I have not heard of this before. The painting I'm doing is slow going, I've been on it 3 days already and not half way through and I bet it will look rubbish when I've finished but I always finish a painting once started, I have to see it through to the end.
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The development of the camera and photography—and WW1, and the Russian revolution—caused many thinking artists to consider the relationship of photography and painting. A great deal has been written about this and much of it is academically unfathomable. One of the central tenets of Cubism concerned the use of multiple viewpoints. The camera has a fixed viewpoint whereas painting does not need to confine itself to one view point.
This is what Picasso, Braque and the others were exploring. There’s a series of YouTube videos from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) that carry the title ‘How to paint like…’. One of them I remember concerned Picasso and Cubism. These vids are intelligent and are not of the Bob Ross ‘copy what I’m doing type’ but also explain the reasoning and thinking of the artist (such as is known).
Hockney has also published much on the multiple viewpoint, in particular with respect to his photography, but the principles are Cubist in origin.