Clark, Timothy J.: Picasso and Truth: from Cubism to Guernica

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Guernica (1937). Oil on canvas, 350 cm x 782 cm

ABOUT THE COVER " I t isn't up to the painter to define the symbols, " said Pablo Picasso when asked to explain his celebrated mural, Guernica. " ….The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them. " Picasso himself did not know what the work would turn out to be when he was commissioned to paint the center-piece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's ...

Amateur Means in Cubism? the Use of Ripolin® by Pablo Picasso

The introduction of non-artistic materials and techniques in Cubism is not a complete invention, contrary to what the traditional historiography of this artistic movement would want to make us think. Contemporary do-it-yourself practices – amateur handicraft – with which Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso had been in contact while living in the workingclass neighborhood of Montmartre, have encour...

Unifying Different Perspectives : From Cubism to Convolution

The mathematical notion of a manifold dates back to 1828, when Carl Friedrich Gauss established an important invariance property of surfaces while proving his Theorema Egregium. In his habilitation lecture in 1854, Bernhard Riemann intrinsically extended Gauss’s theory to manifolds of arbitrary dimension, such that they are not dependent upon the embedding in higher dimensional spaces. This is ...

Video Cubism

We present new non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering tools for video. Inspired by the Cubist and Futurist art movements that questioned previous notions of space and time within paintings, we view an input video as a space-time cube of data, rather than a series of static frames. Our tools process the video as a whole to produce a set of stroke-solids, units for rendering that appear over multiple...

Applied Metacognition Edited by Timothy J . Perfect