Cubism

My dear readers,

I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate all your upbeat comments on my previous post about my orange paintings. Truth be told, you guys inspired me to paint some more and am back to showcase my paintings on my blog to my lovely readers.

This week I worked on a different set of paintings maintaining the abstract and modern art theme – Cubism. This kind of modern art was given impetus by Picasso and Braque in France in the early 1900s. Simply put, cubism is characterized by the disintegration of natural forms into abstract. In this style of painting, geometric figures like cones, cubes, spheres, cylinders are superimposed and constantly play against one another. Hope you like this work and as always : keep those comments coming.

"Senses deform, and spirit forms"*


I call this painting yin-yang. If you look closely, you can see that the face that looks like a single entity is actually that of a woman’s profile and directly behind her is a man watching her – so it’s actually two that gives you an illusion of it being one. This runs parallel with “two bodies, one soul” idea.



This painting is a borrowed idea. I did a google on cubism and found a similar picture and wanted to imitate it. You can see a pot within a pot. Dedicated my friend Chad who is the biggest pothead I know :)

This painting was not what I had in mind when I started off but I actually like the outcome. At first, it looked like many targets or bulls eyes, then it evolved into colorful sushi on a plate and later mutated into a gift wrap design with colors playing against one another.

*as told by Braque about Cubism