Laura Richardson
Humanities 20th Century
Rochelle Thomas
La boutielle de Suze
In the early 20th Century Pablo Picasso and George Braque started an avant-garde art movement that remodeled European paintings and sculpture, also it aspired movements in music literature and architecture. Cubism by some has been considered the most dominant art movement of the 20th century. The initial influence that led cubism was representation of three-dimensional form. In Cubist artwork objects are scrutinized Brocken up and rearranged in an abstract form, instead of showing an object from one view point the artist presents it from multiple view points to show the object in a broader context.
There are many art subjects that have represented the cubist art. One painting in particular by one of the founder’s Pablo Picasso himself La boutielle de Suze, is a key drawing of the cubist movement. In the painting Picasso used cut remnants of newspapers, wallpaper, construction paper along with gauche and charcoal to form a liquor bottle with a label, on the left of the bottle sits an ashtray with cigarette smoke. All the materials combined rests on a blue table facing a wall with diamond shaped wallpaper and newsprint. The painting along with many other’s like it is an embodiment of the idea behind the cubist art, with it’s 3-D like features and the reconstructions of object to show the viewer a bigger image.
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The newspaper clippings he chose where articles that referred to horrific events from the Balkan war with stories of Parisian flippancy. I believe that this was his way of involvement in the political and social issues of his time. The fragment forms of this painting, I think captured the conditions of his era, it’s vicissitude and the lack of meaningful perspective in a forever-changing