#Types of cubism windows

#Types of cubism windows

His works were occasionally real collages, but may also be paintings like collages with Open Windows in Still Life. By 1914, Gris had perfected collage methods by pasting newspaper and magazine pieces in abstract landscapes. The work of Juan Gris is generally seen as closest to that of Picasso and Braque with whom Gris was in close touch from 1911. For the majority of people in the 1910s Cubism was linked to painters such as Metzinger instead of their Picasso or Braque originators. At that time the painting was more recognised than any work by Picasso or Braque that had taken themselves away from the public by not showing in the show. In Metzinger and Gleizes' book Du Cubisme (1912), and in Apollinaire's Cubist Painters, the picture was copied (1913). The teacup is shown in both the profile and the top, while the figure of the lady in the centre position is displayed straight and in the profile.

The female figure and the components of still life are shown from various perspectives as if the artist had walked physically around the subject in consecutive times, capturing it from different views. Despite painting realism, Metzinger leaves, like other Cubists, the single point of view that has been used since the Renaissance.

The critic Andre Salmon called this work at the Salon d'Automne in 1911 'The Mona Lisa of Cubism.' Picasso and Braque, although their works dematerialized people and objects, remained devoted to intelligibility, combining modernism with classicism, which is Salmon's surname.