Coming to grips with cubism

GRADE 11s at St Catherine’s are busy with their Visual Cultural Studies and their Term Practical. This included studying Cubism and experimenting in various ways with different mediums. In Cubist artworks, objects are analysed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form, instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

To experience Cubism the Grade 11s created an experimental artwork by taking photos of a fellow pupil from various angles, printing the images and then recreated a Cubism portrait by cutting and pasting the different images together. It was lots of fun especially guessing who the portrait was. This exercise gave a little more understanding of the pioneer of the movement, Pablo Picasso.