Although the language of
synthetic cubism is successfully employed, there is an unusual contrast between the monochromatic egg form, painted in a quasi-modeling manner, and all the brightly colored and silhouetted shapes.
Loren Munk is a painter who for quite some time has been engaged in a dialogue between the formal language of
synthetic cubism and casual imagery derived from popular culture.
Her still lifes show kinship to
the synthetic cubism of Juan Gris.
For example, the juxtaposition of flat, geometric, black - outlined shapes evidences his interest in
synthetic cubism, which he saw in Pablo Picasso's paintings at Gertude and Leo Stein's famous 1912 salon in Paris, where he also met the artist.
The juxtaposition of flat, geometric, black - outlined shapes continues the artist's espousal of
synthetic cubism — he was the first American artist to fully adopt the style — which he saw when he met Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) at Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous salon in Paris in 1912.
Their treatment of color and the shape directly led to Fauvist and Cubist art explorations and reductionistic depictions of nature at Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, consequently leading to Pablo Picasso and turn from Analytic to
Synthetic cubism.
Playing on the classic minimal box so much in evidence in the mid-1960s, Artschwager «fills» it with a depiction of two interlocked pianos, referencing both
synthetic cubism (the wood graining) and surrealism (the mustache / bracket, one of his favorite devices).
Here, the image brings to mind not only collage but its immediate successor in
synthetic cubism, where color and pattern animated the work of Picasso and Braque, leaving the monochromes of the analytical period far behind.
Despite the frenzied composition and garish, heavily saturated colors, every form is exceptionally neat, crisp, and flat, faintly reminiscent of Gorky's melding of
synthetic cubism and surrealism.
Essentially, the figures are composed of the flat planes of
synthetic cubism, with secondary planes linking them to one another and to their surrounding space.
Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter.
Analytic cubism, the first clear manifestation of cubism, was followed by
Synthetic cubism, practiced by Braque, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and others into the 1920s.
The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto -
synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.
Students develop observational drawing skills, learn about
synthetic cubism and create a simple yet effective piece of
synthetic cubism collage art.