Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, Picasso

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Describe the composition of Still Life with Chair Caning
The work is a circular shape rather than the traditional square or rectangular canvas, suggesting that it is representing a Café’ table top.
The composition is busy with no clear focal point.
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Describe the use of colour or texture on Still Life with Chair Caning
The work consists of very dull/muted colours. There is a lack of bright colour.
Picasso includes new and fascinating textures (chair caning and rope) in order to achieve the modernist style.
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Describe the use of light and tone on Still Life with Chair Caning
Contrasting tones of black and white draw attention to lettering and shapes. Bold, black lettering placed on the white background clearly identifies the ‘J O U’
There is lots of shadowing used in the work, creating a 3D illusion with some of the shapes.
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Describe the use of space and depth or relief on Still Life with Chair Caning
The work is a bird’s eye view of the chain caning and all the objects situated on top of it.
There is some special depth created with the cubist shapes and lines overlapping one another, but overall, the work appears very flat as we are looking down onto
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Describe the use of line or brushwork on Still Life with Chair Caning
The brush strokes are visible. The shapes and lettering appear block-like and heavily outlined, a feature of modernist art.
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What was the Influence from cultural/social factors on Still Life with Chair Caning?
Challenges expectations of fine art, typical still life painting not be painted from a bird’s eye view - Synthetic cubism (geometric shapes)
Conveys anger and confusion random grouping of objects.
Not typical of still life because still life is all about
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What was the Influence from Political factors on Still Life with Chair Caning?
The work deliberately uses fake chair caning in order to discuss the quality of ‘art’.
Picasso is showing that even something considered ugly or invaluable can be considered art.
The overall manic and cluttered appearance of the painting links to the cha
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What was the Influence from technological factors on Still Life with Chair Caning?
The use of found/readymade materials (tablecloth and rope) links to industrial and technological advancements.
It recognises a need for change in art. The increasing popularity of photography also meant that art needed to depict more than what could be ca
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What were the Stylistic comment and artistic influence on Still Life with Chair Caning?
Uses found objects – table cloth chair caning and a rope (beginning of the readymade). Picasso borrowed Braque’s collage technique - taking a manufactured piece of chair caning as his backdrop and then painting onto that. He also framed the painting using
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What were the new uses or developments of materials, techniques & processes on Still Life with Chair Caning?
Picasso’s use of manufactured/readymade materials in his work was considered radical at the time. However, this technique was later seen much more frequently in the Dada movement (1914). He wanted to address the need for modernising art and adding in new
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What quote did Bergson say which works for Still Life with Chair Caning?
‘The world is in a constant state of flux’
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