I was finger painting with my daughter who only has primary colours and tried a little experiment to paint her in a fauvist manner. It turns out to be really hard. The dodgy brushes notwithstanding, choosing the colours for the face from primary colours is quite alarming. Cubism is such a vastly written about subject there comes a time when I need to stop reading and start writing before I run out of time again. Picasso was a child prodigy.
French officers were hunting black people for amusement like lions, and set with gunpowder like human firecrackers, and generally being degraded and murdered. In a direct rejection of this was Picasso. This was a revolutionary break with Western illusionistic art.
Rejected coherences of representational art. It was named after a brothel in his home town, it was originally to have a sailor and a student with a skull but they were soon dropped. Fauvre painters introduced Picasso to African art, whose influence can be seen in the right hand two figures. He deemed African art to depend on knowing rather than seeing. He also had many African, Iberian and Oceanic sculptures.
The formation of Cubism was in sharp contrast to that of Fauvism. Where the Fauves drew from a wide variety of sources, the development of Cubism, except for the joint influences of Cezanne and tribal sculpture, was remarkably self- contained. And whereas the Fauves borrowed restlessly from the art of their predecessors, the Cubists reverted to fundamental principles; they began, so to speak, from the bottom upwards.
Feeling that traditional painting was exhausted, they took each of the elements that comprise the vocabulary of painting β form, space, colour, and technique β and substituted for the traditional use of every one of them a new interpretation of their own.
