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Life & Times: Cubist Confetti

confetti artConfetti—those insidious little paper circles and squares—was ardently embraced in Paris; and figured in the Cubists’ visual vocabulary. Both Picasso and Braque confetti showers as a phenomenon of optical mixing within three-dimensional space. This talk considers the Cubists’ colorful stippling during the prewar years as a sophisticated means of introducing formal qualities of texture and light into their art, while referencing popular culture and artistic movements such as Pointillism.











When: Tue., Dec. 2, 2014 at 11:00 am
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: $30
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confetti artConfetti—those insidious little paper circles and squares—was ardently embraced in Paris; and figured in the Cubists’ visual vocabulary. Both Picasso and Braque confetti showers as a phenomenon of optical mixing within three-dimensional space. This talk considers the Cubists’ colorful stippling during the prewar years as a sophisticated means of introducing formal qualities of texture and light into their art, while referencing popular culture and artistic movements such as Pointillism.

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