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Option #2: Select one or two works of art from this week’s reading assignment, and analyze if/how these works of art were influenced by Cubism. You will want to mention at least one Cubist work of art, in order to prove your point. End your post by giving your own opinion of Cubism’s influence. What movements in the art world do you think could exist (or could not exist) without Cubism?

Gino Severini "Armored Train in Action"

      Cubism is a form that Pablo Picasso started in the early 1900's. Picasso was a classically trained Academy student of art, and was rather astonishing at Illusionist painting, but wanted to go against the academy so he did, and he also had the upper hand in the situation as he knew exactly what the Academy wanted, and knew what he wanted to go against. He came up with a term which he uses quite often in his paintings, and after knowing this knowledge you just might find a new found appreciation for his works. The term is "Simultaneity" which is seeing 2 views of a subject matter at the same time, for instance if you look at the faces he paints one side is the profile view and the other side of the face is a different angle on the same face. With this Pablo Picasso went further with his inventive works and started cubism, which its sole purpose was to only go against the Academy, which always seems to be for the very realistic looking paintings that follow accurate measurements, and no being able to see the artists hand in the work.

Pablo Picasso "Glass and Bottle of Suze"

     Picasso came up with a specific technique which we now call, collage, but it is the art of taking things and making them into art, such as the painting to the right "Glass and Bottle of Suze", which is made of what seems to be newspaper clippings, and he uses very minimal charcoal to accent a few things, and though we know that this is a flat thing, he juxtaposes a three dimensional view onto the viewer and we can see depth within the art piece.
     Gino Serverini's "Armored Train in Action" is a great example of Futurism, but it is a different form from cutting and pasting like Picasso has done in some ways. Severini's group of artists pulled ideas from cubist art to be Avant Garde, since in order to be avant garde you have to pull from at least one of the aspects of, difference, reference, and deference. Their main focus in their art was to advocate war and revolution, so giving the cubist art a little more Saint Simonian Avant Garde purpose, rather than just having art for art's sake. The subject matter is a lot more noticeable , or identifiable, than the cubist artworks. We can also see the geometric shapes that come from the cubists as well, even the flatness of the painting yet still a bit of depth in it. But still a lot more able to understand than the cubism.
      Cubism's influence in art is a hit of miss, but it definitely opened the door for the more abstract art forms that we see today such as, Dadaism, minimalism, and potentially all the other out there art forms. I do not think that these art forms could ever exist without Cubism. But the more traditional art forms, like illusionist, and realist, maybe even Impressionist art would still be in existence without cubism, one because they had already made a debut before this art movement and people were aware of their existence, but also because the subject matter was more "readily available" for the viewer to know what was going on, and the viewer doesn't have to feel violated, in the sense that the artist is trying to "hide" something from them. But overall, I think that cubism opened the doors for artists everywhere to truly explore their true potential.