Rain's Thursday Art Date: Cubism

It's Thursday and that means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is Cubism.

I was in a swap where the artist (hi Marlynn) requested sunflowers.  In an attempt to do something different, here's what I wrote:

A few months ago I was searching for an artist who might have created sunflowers, possibly similar to the ones made by Van Gogh. However, there were no other examples of artists and sunflowers. It was at that time I stumbled onto a term called synthetic cubism. I continued to read and learned this was the final stage of Cubism, made popular by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. According to the Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art:

This process of incorporating everyday materials (newspaper cuttings, tickets, tobacco wrappers etc) into their paintings marked a move away from the austere cerebral abstraction of Analytical Cubism to the more relaxed and decorative Synthetic Cubism. In effect, this advanced form of Cubist art reversed the compositional principle of analytical Cubism. Instead of breaking down an object into fragments and then re-assembling them (analytical Cubism), the image was being built up (synthesized) from new elements and shapes. Moreover, the inclusion of these items suggested that art could be made with scissors and glue as easily as with brushes and paint.

So I asked myself what if Picasso had used sunflowers as a model or theme to depict synthetic cubism during that time period (1912-1914). What I came up with is the above, using paint chips and painted book pages, "fragments of real things" using scissors, and a sewing machine in place of glue. I really liked how this piece turned out, but I have to admit, sewing through four layers of paint chips was a bit of a challenge. In the end, I thought this piece looked vaguely like the sunflower I was going for.

This reminds me of cubism.  It's from the Wichita Art Museum.

 . It's fairly obvious I'm grasping at straws, so I'll stop with this dimensional painting of peacocks I found at the African-American museum two years ago.

All photos taken by me and my one art piece designed and created by me.  Bleubeard would love to see some real cubism, not my poor excuse for a post this week.

Thank you so very much for stopping by.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.