Charlotte's Art Talk: May 2018

Saturday, May 12, 2018

I became interested in Cubism after I first left art studies and was struggling to find my path and style as an artist. I went back to take a life drawing class and became interested in cubism at that time. I learned that Paul Cezanne was the artist that first inspired Cubism. Although, it was Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso who took the style further and were credited with inventing the movement.

Paul Cezanne

Braque and Picasso were rivals but they were also friends who worked together. Picasso said, "we worked so closely together that I couldn't tell his work from mine".

Georges Braque

Pablo Picasso

After I finished with the life drawing class I started working on cubist drawings.

At this time, I did not do very many oil paintings. I did several portraits in oil but focused primarily on drawing. Many years later, I moved into Cubist paintings.

This painting is fairly recent. It took many years to develop my own style of Cubism. Each artist has a style that motivates them to continue to paint. For me, Cubism has been that style. It's a very analytical approach to art that has many different paths and avenues of exploration. That's the main reason that I find it fascinating enough to still paint. There's always some new path to approach form and color with Cubism which keeps me interested. For me, there's the added desire to work with color relationships, along with the cubist method of analyzing form.