Landschap Collages Kubisme

• Beeldende vorming
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Leerdoel: Na deze les begrijp je dat de collages van het Kubisme op meerdere manieren direct naar de werkelijkheid verwijzen en de invloed hiervan op vandaag de dag.

Kubisme

Deconstueren

Meerdere perspectieven

Terugbrengen naar geometrische vormen

Verwijzing werkelijkheid (geen echte abstractie)

Georges Braque - Fles en vissen (1912)

Georges Braque, Fruit Dish and Glass, 1912,

Charcoal drawing extends over the strips of wood grain paper that frame and anchor the central forms. The two vertical strips in the upper portion represent wood paneling on a café wall behind the still life, while the horizontal strip below represents a wooden table supporting the dishes and fruit. A circle drawn on the lower strip of wood grain paper suggests the round knob of a drawer pull. This is a reference to illusionistic paintings, which often depict handles and knobs facing the viewer to enhance the sense of the objects being real and within easy reach.

Jean Siméon Chardin, The House of Cards, 1737

Charcoal drawing extends over the strips of wood grain paper that frame and anchor the central forms. The two vertical strips in the upper portion represent wood paneling on a café wall behind the still life, while the horizontal strip below represents a wooden table supporting the dishes and fruit. A circle drawn on the lower strip of wood grain paper suggests the round knob of a drawer pull. This is a reference to illusionistic paintings, which often depict handles and knobs facing the viewer to enhance the sense of the objects being real and within easy reach.

Houtnerfpapier

Druiven

Ladeknop

Georges Braque, Fruit Dish and Glass, 1912,

Charcoal drawing extends over the strips of wood grain paper that frame and anchor the central forms. The two vertical strips in the upper portion represent wood paneling on a café wall behind the still life, while the horizontal strip below represents a wooden table supporting the dishes and fruit. A circle drawn on the lower strip of wood grain paper suggests the round knob of a drawer pull. This is a reference to illusionistic paintings, which often depict handles and knobs facing the viewer to enhance the sense of the objects being real and within easy reach.

- Tactiliteit

- Directe verwijzing naar werkelijkheid ipv werkelijkheid (Westerse kunstgeschiedenis, mee spelen) naschilderen

- Spanning tussen ruimtesuggestie en plat vlak

The naturalistic grapes framed by lines and pasted paper at the top of the work are also a specific reference to the Western tradition of illusionistic representation. A famous story from Ancient Greece describes how the painter Zeuxis was so skilled an artist that birds tried to eat the grapes he painted. Braque centers his drawn grapes as a well-known example of traditional naturalism and then surrounds them with alternative strategies of representation.

Pablo Picasso, Siphon, Glass, Newspaper and Violin, 1912

Although we are not offered a coherent visual illusion of the objects in the title, these multiple media and representational strategies combine to give us all of the relevant information.

 The headline “La Bataille s’est engagé” (the battle has begun) is from an article about the Balkan War, but it is often interpreted as a competitive challenge to Braque, referring to the use of papier collé. In that reading, this work is a direct response to, and attempt to one-up, Braque’s Fruit Dish and Glass.

The truncated masthead of the newspaper “LE JOU” (short for le journal, French for “the newspaper”) is also meaningful. It appears in many Cubist works and not only signifies the newspaper’s presence in the still life, but also a pun on the French words for “to play” (jouer) and “toy” (le jouet). This is a verbal echo of the many formal rhymes and visual puns that appear in Synthetic Cubist works. These allow for multiple readings of individual elements and the relationships between them.

In Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass, for example, “LE JOU” also recalls the French word for day (le jour), and suggests another reading for the forms in the work. The circle of white paper overlapping the trapezoid of blue paper above it can be interpreted as representing not only a guitar’s sound hole and neck, but as the sun rising into the sky at the beginning of a new day. Battles often begin at dawn, and the paired juxtaposition of the papier collé guitar and the Analytic Cubist drawing of a glass suggests a competition between older and newer Cubist techniques.

John Heartfield: 

The Meaning Behind the Hitler Salute: Little Man Asks for Big Donations. 

Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!), 1932

Max Ernst - Anatomie als Braut, 1921 / Right: Herbert Bayer - Lonesome City Dweller

Opdracht

Maak een kubistisch landschap met behulp van collage: 

- Foto van landschap is je leidraad

- Tenminste 3 verschillende verwijzingen naar de werkelijkheid met behulp van 'shortcuts'

- Ten minste één object met 3 verschillende perspectieven.

Ga niet meteen plakken! Eerst zoeken, knippen, schuiven en bedenken en schetsen.

Materiaal: Tijdschriften, kranten, lijm, papier, pen, potlood, houtskool etc. (je mag ook papier van huis meenemen)

Bonuspunten voor driedubbele verwijzingen met een element in je collage!