Creator: Malevich, Kazimir, Russian, 1878- 1935 Title: Knife Grinder Date: 1912-1913 Creator: Umberto Boccioni, Italian, 1882-1916 Title: Dynamism of a Soccer Player Work Type: Painting Date: 1913 Cubo-Futurism

• A common theme I have been seeing in the different Cubo- Futurism Paintings is a wide variety of color and either solid formations or a high amount of single colors blended or layered without losing the original color. I sense of movement is also very big, the Knife Grinder shows the action of grinding by a repeated image of the hand, knife, or foot on paddle to show each moment of movement. The solid shapes and designs tho individually may not seem relevant to a human figure all come together to show the act of sharpening a knife. I Love this piece because of the strong colors and repeated imagery to show the act. • In the Dynamism of a soccer player the sense of movement is sort of around and into the center, I can imagine a great play of lights and crystal clarity of the ideas of the objects moving. I almost feel like this is showing not just one moment or one movement but perhaps an entire soccer game in the scope of the 2D canvas. Creator: Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935 Title: Aucassin and Nicolette Date: 1921 Creator: Charles Demuth Title: My Egypt Work Type: Paintings Date: 1927 Precisionism

• Precisionism is the idea of making an artwork of another “artwork” as in a piece of architecture , or machinery. The artist renders the structure using very geometric and precise lines and they tend to keep an element of realism in their work. Charles Demuth’s Artwork both portray a piece of architecture that relates to processing, farming or industry. He uses great amounts of shading in his forms while keeping all the lines very precise and simplified. • The Aucassiu and Nicolette has very toned down colors and is barely on the edge of outlining. The background is colored more in simple shapes filled with a blended color then of one solid gradation. • The painting, My Egypt, has much more dominant outlining especially in the signifying lines of light. This overlapping sections create a better sense of visual interest in what otherwise would be a very simply architecture piece of art. Creator: Picasso Title: Portrait of Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler Date: 1910 Cubo-Futurism and Percisionism Vs. “True” Cubism • Between the three forms of Cubism there are both similarities and differences. A common theme is the idea of line being used in and of itself as a form of description. These artworks are all using both line and color to create a form on a 2D surface. To compare the Knife Grinder and Picasso’s Portrait of Daniel you can see that they both has a very solid line and from that line becomes the shape that they use to describe the subject. The Knife Grinder’s shapes are very solid and each shape is both a representation and a thing by itself. The Dynamism is a fair amount different but also more similar as where the portrait of Daniel is a line then a color, the dynamism is more of movement, color, line, color. • The artworks by Demuth are much more representational the Picasso’s Daniel because I believe that Picasso wants his painting to be nothing but what it is, a painting on canvas instead of a painting of Daniel. The two works by Demuth are more of celebrating the ingenuity of the architecture of the buildings and using the idea of it to create the background and lighting.