Pablo Picasso and Cubism

Name: Pablo Picasso and Cubism
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Cubism and the Emergence of Abstraction

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 4/2022

English

What you'll learn

After taking this course students will have a much more profound appreciation and understanding of modern art.
Increased appreciation of Art
The course promotes self-learning.
The course enhances human development.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 9m total length

Introduction1:50
Explore abstraction in Picasso's Cubism, tracing blue and pink periods, analytic and synthetic cubism, a return to classicism and surrealism.
Picasso Lecture 21:43
Explore abstraction and extraction as artists distill nature into abstract forms, looking at plants, animals, and landscapes to reveal what lies behind the visible world, using cylinder, sphere, and comb.
Picasso Lecture 36:45
Explore form as the foundation of Cubism, tracing planes, prisms, and forms. See how spheres, hemispheres, cylinders, and cones become the basis for Picasso and the cubists.
Picasso Lecture 42:16
Picasso Lecture 54:57
Explore Picasso’s blue period as he uses cool blues with deliberate warm accents to offset sadness, reflecting grief from a friend's death and a shift toward more abstract, somber figures.
Picasso Lecture 66:10
See Picasso’s pink period, sparked by affection with Fernand Ollivier, bringing warmth to harlequins and circus scenes, with strong delineation, and a journey from naturalism to abstraction.
Picasso Lecture 77:33
Explore how Cezanne's heavy brushstrokes and study of structure reveal forms in still lifes and portraits, bridging impressionism and cubism and signaling the future of modern art.
Picasso Lecture 86:51
Explore analytical cubism as Picasso blends African sculpture and Cézanne's influence to deconstruct form and emphasize basic shapes, tracing Braque's evolving use of texture.
Picasso Lecture 92:45
Picasso Lecture 102:47
Explore the evolution of Picasso's cubism through a focused lecture that examines key works and stylistic shifts.
Picasso Lecture 119:37
Explore how cubism and modern abstraction emerged from a dialogue among Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Cézanne at L'Estaque, shaping analytic and synthetic cubism.
Picasso Lecture 123:23
Picasso and black sparked a huge movement in modern art as cubism became a primary form of plastic expression, with portraits and still lifes highlighted in this era.
Picasso Lecture 132:19
The lecture contrasts Picasso's mature period with a monumental, sculptural style marked by naturalistic rendering of seated and standing figures on a rectangular prism, with noted edginess.
Picasso Lecture 142:51
Picasso Lecture 152:33
Explore Picasso’s 1937 cubist painting depicting the bombing of a Basque town, highlighting suffering through symbols: the horse for the people, the bull for Spain, and a woman in flames.
Course Catalog5:32

Requirements

The only thing you need is an interest in Art and Modern Art in particular.

Description

This is a course on the work of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is one of the most influential painters of modern art. The innovations that he, along with George Braque, developed had a profound influence on modern art. In addition to the work of Picasso we study and enjoy the work of Cezanne, George Braque and Juan Gris. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone interested in the roots of modern art in the works of this great master.