The art movement- Cubism

Our very first assignment for this course is to do some research about art movement and find out the art movement that we feel represents us best. After going through the long list of art movement of Wikipedia, I found out that the art movement that I represents me the best is Cubism. =)
First of all, cubism is artistic movement that spanned from 1907 to 1914, and which featured the abandonment of traditional rules on perspective in favor of flattened, geometric representations of objects and people. It has been created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Other important painters are Roger de la Fresnaye, Louis Marcoussis and Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes are also of note. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. This movement generally are characterized by geometric, fractured forms, muted, depthless colors and unspecified edges. Many use basic Euclidean geometric solids: pyramid, cube, sphere, cylinder and cone. Besides that,  'CUBISM' derived its name from the remarks made by painter Henry Matisse and critic Louis Vauxcelles who described Braque's work "Houses at L'Estaque" as made up of cubes. There is two types of  cubism which are Analytic and Synthetic.  Analytic Cubism, lasted from 1907 to 1912, and is characterized by polygonal structural constituents, neutral organic colors and human figures. Other while, Synthetic cubism  is from 1912 to 1919. It's also combining a few objects together. The links that enabled me to find this research are http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-cubism.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism .
There's some pictures which I found fascinating :

                                          Cassie Thinking About Cubism by Philip Absolon

                                               Harbor by Georges Braque  

                                                              Georges Braque

                                                      Man with a Violin by  Pablo Picasso

                                                             Pablo Picasso

                                             

                                                   Woman with Pears by Pablo Picasso

                                    This is my self portrait using the art movement,Cubism.

First Lesson of Principles of Design =)

The day, is the first lesson of Principles of Design. I was wondering what's it all about? In fact, Miss Lisa gave us an activity, that is, all students were required to design an oneself mind map and also our very own self portrait. We did have 2 hours to complete it. At the beginning, I had no idea what to do about these, and a question kept appearing in my mind, 'do I understand me?' In fact, I did. =D  The picture as shown on the top of the post is my self mind map, it might be looks so simple compared to others, but it defines me. As my nickname called Apple, so I just draw an apple in the middle of the mind map in order to make everyone could remember my name easily. Besides, I also wrote down my personality and the things that I like, for example, I am an active person, but sometimes, I'm also lazy...... And for the favourite colour that I like is pink colour, so while I draw the mind map, I mostly used pink colour, it might be feel a little bit ridiculous, but it's me! Next, I also wrote down my goal, that is, I hope to get good result in my studies, make money in the future... :) Last but not least, there's a picture below the mind map, it's my self portrait. All the materials used to complete this self portrait are all from the nature, I walked around the campus and finally, I got something to make the self portrait. By the way, I don't think it looks like my face, may be this called art,or maybe it is not. After we have completed all these things, we had to present it one by one. It's really made me felt nervous but also it was a fun lesson. :D