Still Life with Chair-caning


When early in 1912 Picasso created his Still Life with chair-caning, using extraneous objects stuck to the picture surface -- the first collage painting -- he introduced reality literally and physically.

Picasso's collages were a development of Braque's experiment in the same year with papier colles, pasted cut-papers which acted both as formal elements of the composition and representationally, yet at the same remained obdurately just objects. Once the synthetic principle-- building up, putting together, rather than breaking down, rearranging * had been formulated, the conceptual nature of the artist's work became ever more marked.

Picasso created his first collage, Still Life with Chair Caning. This technique marked a transition to synthetic cubism. This second phase of cubism is more decorative, and color plays a major role, although shapes remain fragmented and flat.





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