All about Cubism

The Musée Picasso features a lot of his sculptures as well, most of them very reminiscent of his paintings. Picasso is famous for his founding of Cubism. This head statue is a perfect example of Cubism. He would analyze every individual shape of the model; the nose, the eye, the mouth, and then paint them individually according to his interpretation. The actual placement of the part on the final work had nothing to do with "reality", rather his interpretation of where the part would look best. The first movement of Cubism was characterized by using simple geometric shapes (like cubes) to represent the seperate parts, rather than convey the detail of the part. Its pretty cool stuff. Check out the mom walking her baby in the stroller. This is another great example of Cubism. Notice that the stroller is an exact likeness of a stroller while the mother and baby are all weird-looking. Its hard to tell in the picture, but the babies legs and arms are long and snake like and look all rubbery while the mom is straight as a board and stable. Isn't this just how moms and babies move while on a walk? Also, Mom's hands are seperated from her wrists, one is 2-dimensional on her forearm while the other is like a big lump on the stroller handle, meanwhile, her feet are in odd shapes and positions, like she's walking, and using her hands to take care of the baby at the same time. It's really neat stuff. I really really really like Picasso.