This easy-to-read highly illustrated book tells the story of the way that ART with a capital A works its way through History, with a capital H.Many Art Histories tell who did what movement when but not why or what they were trying to accomplish. This book clearly and concisely focuses on the Cubist art movement, those who developed it, and those who jumped on the bandwagon.
In Cubism, the founders were updating the reality of the Renaissance with its geometric perspective and picture-in-a-window eyesight interpretations. Picasso, Braque and Gris were part of the School of Paris when Modern things were happening, just like today. They wanted to find a more realistic reality to communicate in a modern sense the Portraiture, Still Life and Landscape subjects of Art.
I liked reading how Cubism evolved and what steps (in their Process) Picasso and Braque took in their effort to more realistically tell about form and space. I put myself in Europe as a Modern Artist from 1906 till just after World War I. I was able to look around Europe to see how artists were reacting to Modern Marvels of Engineering and Science and how it entered their creations and thoughts about what it meant to be an Artist.
Today Modern happens faster and as Artists we have all kinds of Ways to deliver our Message all kinds of places. Even more now we need to touch base with the basics and be in touch with what our 'school' is and where we are on the Circle, as Jorgen basically says. To see which of the four points of the circle is our looking glass for interpreting Modern Times so that we can move more in the opposite direction and become Richer Artists. (not measured by money)
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