Analyctical Cubism

Paintings executed during 1910-1912, showed the breaking down and analysis of a form. It was favoured to have right- angels and stright- line constructions some of them appeared sculptural.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Girl with a Mandolin "

Oil painting on canvas

Simplified, nearly monochromatic colours (brown, gray, cream, green or blue were preferred).

In order not to distract the viewer from the artists primary interest, from the structure form itself.

Giacomo Balla

Giacomo Balla, was part of the first wave of Futurist painters.

Balla´s earlier works were greatly influenced by Seurat, but by 1912 he had joined the Futurist movement. After 1909 Balla´s paintings became more and more concerned with the portrayal of light, speed and movement-this fascination in demonstrated in his works such as the Hand of the Violinist, and the speed of the Motorcycle.
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Balla thought to break down elements such as the light to their simplest forms he moved closer to total abstraction in his paintings.

Balla´s paintings and sculptures slowly began to shift to more geometric forms, which he would alternate with figurative abstraction.

"Dynamims of a Dog on a Leash"

Oil on canvas in year 1912.

"Speed of Motorcycle"
 1913 Oil on Canvas

Shape Noise Motorcyclist and Speed of a Motorcycle exemplify the Futurists' insistence that the perceived world is in constant motion. This painting illustrates light, speed and movement, which Balla sought to break down to their simplest forms while moving closer to total abstraction.

Futurism

The Futurism movement, ranging from 1909 to 1944, originated in Italy as an avant-garde movement that took technology, speed and modernity as its inspiration.

Futurism conveyed the technological dynamics of twentieth century life. The futurist style glorified the machine age and war, and favoured the rise of Fascism. In 1909 Filippo Marinetti created his first manifesto of the art style. In bombastically provocative language the manifesto, violently anarchical in tone, announced the birth of a new literary and social movement and called upon the young to flock to the banner,. The general tone of the manifesto with its exaltation of violence and conflict owed much to the influence of Nietzsche, who despite later repudiation had also influenced by Boccioni and the other Futurists, and the passion for movement and change for their own sake derived from Bergson, who at that time enjoyed a vague among the advanced intelligentsia of Italy. Futurist painters had no specific visual style.

" Idea was all in one content" The Futurist practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music and architecture.

(Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound, 1913-1914)

Oil on millboard with artists painted frame.

It has been proposed that Abstract Speed + Sound was the central section of a narrative triptych suggesting the alteration of landscape by the passage of a car through the atmosphere.¹ The related Abstract Speed, the car has passed would have been the flanking panels. Indications of sky and a single landscape are present in the three paintings; the interpretation of fragmented evocations of the car’s speed varies from panel to panel. Crisscross motifs, representing sound, and a multiplication of the number of lines and planes.

Picasso´s Influences

Picasso was influenced by the simplicity of African and pre- Christian Liberian sculptures and started exploring them in his work. His painting in year 1907 " Les Demoiselles d` Avignon" can be considered this first work of Cubism. He started to use real Materials for his cubist works, a style that came to be called `Collage`.