"Still Life with a Box of Matches," Maria Blanchard, 1918.

Spanish-born Blanchard (1881-1932) battled multiple physical disabilities all her life, and expressed her depression and pain in her art, encouraged by her journalist father.

She painted in an avant-garde but representational style at first, but after moving to Paris in 1916, she hung out with fellow Spaniard Juan Gris (aka my favorite Cubist) and was inspired by him to develop her own style of Cubism. She was well-regarded and in demand for a while, but a general economic downturn in the 1920s hurt the market for her work.

Sharing a studio with both Gris and Diego Rivera, her style of Cubism had bold colors, expressive brushwork, and geometric abstraction, and occasionally poured sand or glass beads on the paint to give it texture. She was regarded by the Cubists as one of the greatest of their style, even after she moved on to a more figural school of painting.

Her story is a sad one; physical disabilities, financial pressures, and physical and mental health issues. But she remains a respected artist to this day.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

THESE
Three mentioned the three mentioned are too much glass too many hyacinths too many horses. Horses are used at once. Why are horses used at once.

Text: prose #poem from "A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow" (1926) by American writer Gertrude #Stein (1874-1946)
#GertrudeStein #poetry #cubism

Photo: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, probably summer 1927, in: Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures, edited by Renate Stendhal, London 1995.

Today in Labor History September 7, 1911: French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum. They released him after a week. The crime had actually been committed by his former secretary. Apollinaire was one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. In fact, he was credited with coining both of these terms, the latter in 1917, with respect to the ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie, libretto by Jean Cocteau, and costumes by Pablo Picasso. Apollinaire wrote one of the first Surrealist literary works, the play “The Breasts of Tiresias” (1917). He was admired during his lifetime by the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the Surrealist group (Breton, Aragon, Soupault). Apollinaire died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #art #poetry #theatre #surrealism #dada #cubism #apollinaire #cocteau #picasso #influenza #pandemic #novel #fiction #books @bookstadon

Illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall, from The Cubies’ ABC (1913).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/70fc093e-807a-408f-a27c-b301aaf2eb03

EIN KLEINER ANFANG
Sie sagt es sei für den Anfang, sie sagt daß teils einerseits dies teils andererseits das daß sie sagt daß das teils dies und dies teils das sei, sie sagt das sei sie so gewohnt.

Text: prose #poem from "A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow" (1926) by American writer Gertrude #Stein (1874-1946),

German translation by Oskar #Pastior and Sissi #Tax in "Ein Buch mit da hat der Topf ein Loch am Ende", Berlin 1987.
#GertrudeStein #poetry #cubism

A LITTLE BEGINNING
She says it is a small beginning, she says that partly this and partly that, she says it is partly this and partly that, she says that it is what she is accustomed to.

Text: prose #poem from "A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow" (1926) by American writer Gertrude #Stein (1874-1946),
#GertrudeStein #poetry #cubism

Photo: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, studio photo, late 1920ies, in: Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures, edited by Renate Stendhal, London 1995.

Illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall, from The Cubies’ ABC (1913).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/12bb5946-bb06-49c4-b9dc-dca391c1f898

Für mich der Inbegriff von 'Kubismus' - die Kubushäuser in #Rotterdam (hätte auch gut zum gestrigen Thema 'In die Luft geschaut' gepasst )

Schattenzug

Humility is not weakness, but the grace of aligning oneself with the way the dust decides to fall.

Demut ist keine Schwäche, sondern die stille Kunst, sich dem Tanz des Staubes hinzugeben.

#Orbite #ART #ARTE #ARTWORK #minimalism #colored #silence #Cubism #Schattenzug #silence #CamelCaravan #DesertArt #AbstractLandscape #SilhouetteStyle
https://ko-fi.com/orbitelambda

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4RhiZMF9SsuWoUhfkOq_F0SjjxYUwmZ/view?usp=drive_link

Schaffung/creation
https://mastodon.social/@orbite/114930603806412888

"Portrait of Josette Gris," Juan Gris, 1916.

I've talked about Gris before, so I'll skip any biography.

But I will reiterate that I generally don't care for Cubism, unless it's Gris. Here we see a turning point in the style; rather than simple experimentation for its own sake, we have Cubism actually attempting to achieve some continuity with traditional painting. Gris here actually paints a recognizable portrait of his wife, here in a pose reminiscent of earlier artists like Corot.

It's still experimental, especially with its use of black and gray, with only one or two bits of actual color...but it's a memorable image. And for my money, worth more than any other Cubist's work. (Heresy, I know.)

From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Wallpaper 16:9
Valensole

Ich habe es für meinen Computer gemacht, um "Morgen in der Küche" zu ersetzen.

I made it for my computer to replace "morning in the kitchen"

#Orbite #ART #ARTE #ARTWORK #minimalism #colored #silence #Cubism #Valensole #Field #france #silence
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7QFrEEEyIFw2XwOAs6HlvNOfS_PIzjo/view?usp=drive_link

Heißluftballon

#Orbite #ART #ARTE #ARTWORK #minimalism #colored #Cubism #Heißluftballon #Luftballons #Field #france #silence
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"The Open Window," Juan Gris, 1921.

Gris (1887-1927) is my favorite Cubist, which is pretty remarkable because I don't care much for Cubism overall. However, the strength of his line, and his willingness to experiment with a three-dimensional attitude, and how he makes his paintings comprehensible while still unmistakably Cubist just amazes me.

Here, we have a guitar, some sheet music, a bottle, a cup, and a bowl of nuts before an open window. But the window frame is askew and doesn't match up with the shutters. the sheet music intersects bizarrely with the bowl of nuts, and the clouds from the outside view are also inside. And yet...it all makes a certain sense. Gris was experimenting with perspective, light, and shadow, and it all works beautifully.

He died young, never moving on from Cubism, which may seem sad but he leaves a solid legacy.

From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Vogel im Deck
Bird in the Deck

#Orbite #ART #ARTE #ARTWORK #minimalism #colored #silence #popart #wpap #Cubism #landscape #silence #harley #quinn #harleyquinn #Suicide #Squad
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1myUTUZBxzcHK84MKKa75FWtKz_nFbiDv/view?usp=drive_link

"Guitar with Inlays," Juan Gris, 1925.

And hello again to my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris (1887-1927). I've talked about him before so I won't repeat myself. He's been described as perhaps the purist Cubist; he died young and thus never moved away from the style.

Like many Cubists, he was fascinated by musical instruments, and being a Spaniard, it seems natural he'd be drawn to the guitar. Here we have a still life that's fairly representational but still undeniably Cubist, with a bowl of grapes, a pipe, a book (or is it sheet music?), and of course, the inlaid guitar.

This is an example of what became known as Synthetic Cubism, where they became more representational, but would also depict objects as being broken into component shapes, often asymmetrical and out of perspective, so while they're recognizable, they're still off-kilter. Gris does a good job with it.

From the Museo Nacional Centro Des Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Happy birthday #mathematician Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912), here in my Cubist #linocut portrait.

This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary #math & #physics. Specifically, the way #Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & special

#Caturday:
Jean Metzinger (France, 1883-1956)
Homme assis au chat (Seated Man with #Cat ), 1917-18
Oil on canvas, 12 3/5 x 16 1/10 in.
On display at Nassau County Museum of Art NY
#CatsInArt #Cubism