Cubism and Futurism

Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, Blue Period





Pablo Picasso, The Saltimbanques, Rose Period






Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907






Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie, Analytical Cubism







Pablo Picasso, A Bottle of Suze, collage, Synthetic Cubism







Pablo Picasso, Man Leaning on a Table, Synthetic Cubism







Pablo Picasso, Guitar, sculpture made from sheet metal







George Braque, Soda






Fernand Leger, Card Players






Robert Delaunay, Homage to Bleriot







Filippo Marinetti, page from Parole in Liberta (Words in Freedom), Futurism







Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, Futurism






Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed, Futurism






Antonio Sant'Elia, Futurist City, Futurism






A. Bertelli, Portrait of Mussolini, Futurism



PICASSO AND CUBISM

Pablo Picasso
--Blue Period
--Rose Period
--Cubism
----mass
----volume
----Analytical Cubism
----Synthetic Cubism
---------collage

Other Cubists
--George Braque
--Fernand Leger
--Robert Delaunay



FUTURISM

Filippo Marinetti
Futurist Evenings
Benito Mussolini



A Cubist Movie


Fernand Leger had close ties with the Futurists and shared their enthusiasm for technology and machinery. In 1924, he collaborated with the American composer George Antheil to make this film, Ballet Mecanique (Mechanical Ballet). It has no plot and no story line. It is a rhythmic collection of random objects and images. The score and the mechanical rhythms of the movie perhaps give some indication of what the old Futurist performance pieces, the Futurist Evenings, were like. Here is part of that movie.









Futurism in Song and Verse


Filippo Marinetti reading his own poetry:




Futurism was the first modern art movement associated with extremist politics, in this case, the politics of the far right. Here is the Fascist anthem (illegal in Italy):




Guidebook to the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista (Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution). 1932