The Cardiff Team, 1913, The Cardiff Team’

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Describe the composition of The Cardiff Team
The composition is busy in the lower part especially as people are crowded with rugby and billboards, all directing their gaze upwards leading the viewer to look up as well – to the new technological changes.
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Describe the use of colour or texture of The Cardiff Team
Bright colours unlike cubism, complementary colours throughout. Fauvist influences’
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Describe the use of light and tone of The Cardiff Team
Slight tonal range as the figures are very flat.
Light is very fragmented especially in the sky as its split in squares.
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Describe the use of space and depth or relief of The Cardiff Team
Little depth in the foreground as the rugby players merge into the foregrounds, however the Eiffel tower in the background is small suggesting depth and space.
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Describe the use of light or brushwork of The Cardiff Team
Flat facets of colour, visible brushstrokes especially in the sky.
No bare canvas showing as its mostly block colours.
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What was the Influence from cultural/social factors on The Cardiff Team?
Salon cubism was made for salons meaning to be exhibited and sold. So it was colourful, eye catching and not random. Unlike cubists who were experimenting.
Orphists saw art as bringing together sensations of colour and fragmented abstraction.
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What were the Influence from technological factors on The Cardiff Team?
Bleriot flying the first biplane across the top half of the painting, Bleriot was an engineer and inventor. He made the first airplane fly in 1909
Eiffel tower, tallest building at the time.
A Ferris wheel curves off the Eiffel tower, the spinning of prop
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What were the Stylistic comment and artistic influence on The Cardiff Team?
Influenced by Fauvism with use of bright colours.
Fragmented scene influenced by Cubism.
Synthetic Cubism (1912-14) influences in lettering on billboards.
Futurism: emphasis on movement and dynamism
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What were the new uses or developments of materials, techniques & processes used on The Cardiff Team?
Salon cubism was a mix between cubism and abstraction, abstracting The painting is cropped as photography was becoming more popular, shows there is more to the scene.
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What did Eugene Chevreul say about The Cardiff Team?
"if there is a perceptible difference in dark-light value between the two colours, then the darker will appear to be even darker"
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