Read the work ‘Tender Buttons’ by poet Gertrude Stein. How does her use of language resonate with the visual work of the Cubists? Using the link citation below, I downloaded and read the work. (Stein, 2019) Stein had been a student to philosopher William James and shared his interest in automatic writing, this had a... Continue Reading →
2-3-2 Research Point 2 (Cubists)
Explore the early Cubist works of Pablo Picasso and George Braque online, in books or in journals. If you can, visit a gallery to see them. What were the influences on Cubism? The foundations of the Cubist movement were not laid by Picasso or Braque but by Paul Cezanne. In the examples above of Cezanne’s... Continue Reading →
2-3-1 Contemporary approaches to still life: exploring space
2-3-1 Exercise 1.2 On Perspective Make a series of colour studies, with these papers, which explore shape and the spatial relationships that exist between the table and its inhabitants. You do not need to work from the whole table. A frontal view of the still life arrangement. The various objects have morphed into a... Continue Reading →