Marc Chagall

I and the Village

Oil on Canvas 1911

Cubism was created by two well known artists, Picasso and Braque. The time was around 1907. Photography was also out around this time. Picasso and Braque brought something new to the art scene and remained relevant. Cubism is geometric shapes that overlap each other forming a picture when analyzed.  The geometric shapes gave the viewer the chance to view the picture behind the picture, the structure instead of just viewing the surface. It is said that this is how we all view things at a glance. The picture has many different shapes all pulling together to form a picture. Cubism goes against what we learned art should look like. The picture is flat, two dimensional and does not follow the traditional Western style of art. The colors used in this style of art are not heavy mostly plain colors.

Peter Blume

The Eternal City

Oil on board 1937

The surrealism movement was when art was based on the unconscious mind. Unconscious like when a person is in a dream like state. When people dream, we often have weird or unrealistic things happening in our dreams. Often those things can symbolize something this is what surrealism is based on. In the picture I choose the green jack in a box represented someone or something scary, mean etc. The jack in the box is exaggerated but gets the point across. The picture almost seems animated, the woman sitting down panhandling doesn’t seem to be threaten by this monster and nor does anyone else in the picture. There are different types of people all in one picture. There are businessmen, soldier’s elderly and animals. The symbolization between all  people in the picture is civilization.