Pablo Picasso: Still-life with a Bottle of Rum, 1911, oil on canvas, Cubism Cubism was a modern movement and evolved rapidly. The movement had two stages: Analytic Cubism, where forms are analyzed and fragmented; and Synthetic Cubism, where materials...

Pablo Picasso: Still-life with a Bottle of Rum, 1911, oil on canvas, Cubism

Cubism was a modern movement and evolved rapidly. The movement had two stages: Analytic Cubism, where forms are analyzed and fragmented; and Synthetic Cubism, where materials are collaged on a canvas for synthetic signs.

This painting, the Still-life with a Bottle of Rum, was one of Picasso’s analytical cubism paintings. The painting was abstract and fragmented. It was a place for discovery. The painting had facets that seem to deplete of their substance, leaving a fragmented overlapping of planes. Picasso also experimented with typography. The painting is rather difficult to interpret with the discontinuity of figurative fragments.

Melissa McQuillan. “Picasso, Pablo.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. <http://0-www.oxfordartonline.com.library.scad.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T067316>.

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