cubism

Cubism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

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"We are frankly amused to think that many a novice may perhaps pay for his too literal comprehension of the remarks of one cubist, and his faith in the existence of an Absolute Truth, by painfully juxtaposing the six faces of a cube or the two ears of a model seen in profile."

Jean Metzinger· b. 1883View quote →

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"A cry of horror against the inhuman brutality of this act of tyranny."

"...when objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909; this for me was a way of getting closest to the object.. .Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space."

"Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database, LACMA"

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

"..between ourselves, do you think a worker wants to hang a picture in his home where he sees himself sweating in a factory? He would prefer a bouquet of flowers or a pretty landscape."

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🇫🇷Maurice de Vlaminck

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cubism

1876–1958

"remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them."

"Our new aim is the organisation of the material environment, i.e. of contemporary industrial production, and all active artistic creativity must be directed towards this."

"I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with."

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

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"Art belongs to the domain of the unreal and it is only when people try to make a reality of it that it falls apart."

— Jean Metzinger, b. 1883View →

"There was no telling who this head, or this leg, or that arm, belonged to.. .So I scattered the limbs in my painting and realized that in this way I was getting much closer to the truth than Michelangelo did when he concentrated on every separate muscle."

— Fernand Léger, b. 1881View →

"The role of the 'representational arts' - painting, sculpture, and even architecture.. ..has ended, as it is no longer necessary for the consciousness of our age, and everything art has to offer can simply be classified as a throwback."

— Lyubov Popova, b. 1889View →

"Our new aim is the organisation of the material environment, i.e. of contemporary industrial production, and all active artistic creativity must be directed towards this."

— Lyubov Popova, b. 1889View →

"Christina Lodder, 'Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design', Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010"

— Lyubov Popova, b. 1889View →

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