I am interested in the relationship between Stein's cubist poetry and Picasso's analytic cubist paintings. I want to know how they mutually inspired each others process and final product. I want to reflect that influence by calling out color and or Distortion based on different axis's set in the spread. In the cubist paintings much of the broken up imagery is sitting on different angles. Using a paper that is simular in color to the cubist paintings at the time. A vanilla or aged paper. If possible I would like the paper to be transparent to some extent to allow all of the poems to merge together to form one collective image like the cubist paintings that showed all sides as one.
Cubism: Objects are broken up, analyzed, re-asembled in abstract form instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint.
"In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled 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. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics."
"The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters. Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans (1906–08) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well. Picasso in turn was an important influence on Stein's writing."
Paper Size: At the moment I am thinking a 5.5in x 8.5in size pages in an 8.5 x 11 two page spread or a four page in an 11x17 that can be folded out and viewed with four poems forming the canvas of sorts.
OR a series of seperate sheets of paper that can be held together as one or multiple sets. Each would create its own cubist image.
Paper Type: Aged or vanilla colored possibly transparent paper.
Sample Spreads:
Reference Images: Picasso's analytic cubist paintings.
OR a series of seperate sheets of paper that can be held together as one or multiple sets. Each would create its own cubist image.
Paper Type: Aged or vanilla colored possibly transparent paper.
Sample Spreads:
Sample Overlap:
Reference Images: Picasso's analytic cubist paintings.
