Hello Tara, you may wish to consider the way analytical Cubism 'broke' the single-point perspective associated with 'traditional' pictorial art and 'compressed' the pictorial plane into quite a narrow depth of field. The single viewpoint perspective that developments in geometry brought to painting were disturbed by Cubism. The development of photography also had some influence on the emergence of art forms such as Cubism in that photography challenged the role of painting. Cubism challenged the notion of what representations of reality could be. Have a look at:
Harrison, C. et al 1993 'Primitivism, Cubism and Abstraction' Yale/OU
Welchman, JC. 1995 'Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity' Allen and Unwin.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Alec
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, tara ford wrote:
> Wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this.
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> My research question for one of my modules is 'What is the role of Geometry in Cubism?'. I am finding this a difficult question to answer as such. Surely Geometry developed the Cubist movement?
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> My research has shown that Cezanne depicted nature through the sphere, cone, cylinder and rectangle. These shapes are evident in his work, but do you think they were a conscious decision of his or did they just appear?
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> Theories would be much appreciated!
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> Tara
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