cubism and bas relief art

At College we watched a power point on Cubism we learnt it was created in the 20th century by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, We were shown what cubism was really about, and how the artists wanted to emphasise the two-dimensionality of the canvas instead of the tradition techniques of perspective. They reduced and Broke down objects into geometrical form and realigned them as well as using multiple/contrasting vantage points.

We were also shown some of Paul Cezanne's work and how his work influenced the art of cubism. I Feel like i learned a lot from this as it helped me understand cubism in a way i never did before. Our tutor told us to look at Analytic Cubism (the early phase of cubism) and pick a Picasso or Braque peace and print it out, i picked this

The Factory at Horto de Ebro - 1909.

We were then told about bas relief art, and to create our own relief art using cardboard and other materials of our chosen picture. I started mine like this

But i felt really frustrated and could not wrap my head around how i was going to create a cubist raised type of art, so i did some research and started again

i started with the 'house' and built it up making it almost like a pop up type picture, i then started to build the other buildings and walls ect. trying to look at the shapes and vantage points used in the picture

i then started to paint it, trying to keep the colours similar to the Picasso picture and in keeping with the colour scheme with the Analytic Cubism colours

i found this type of art very challenging but fun, very different and at times frustrating. But i am happy with my end peace but i if i was to do this again i would change the angle of the 'House' on the left so you can see the front shape more clearly. Because this is cubism i found the angles of the roof and sides of the house quite hard to raise up, But overall i feel ok with it.

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