What is Cubism attempting to do?

1. Oath of the Horatii (1789, Jacques-Louis David)
What does the scene depict? How is this painting Neorealist in style? What does it have to do with the French Revolution?
2. Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717, Antoine Watteau)
What does this scene depict? Who was buying this art? Why did they like it? What is a fete galante? What period of art does this belong to?
3. Olympia (1863, Edouard Manet)
What is being depicted here? How is the painting style different from what we’ve seen before? Why did this depiction cause controversy when it was unveiled?
4. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907, Pablo Picasso)
What is Cubism attempting to do? What is “Primitivism” and how does did it inspire this work? Why was the representation of the women controversial?
5. The Eclipse of the Sun, (1926, George Grosz)
What art movement is this a part of and what was the point of it? What is the artist symbolically trying to assert through these figures and objects?
6. The Fountain (1917, Marchel Duchamp)
What art movement does this belong to? What is it? What statement is the artist making? How is this artwork/art movement tied to ideas about World War I?

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