Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement pioneered by Georges Braque   


 Pablo Picasso
   

Jean Metzinger
   
 that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris during the 1910s and extending through the 1920s. Variants such as Futurism and Constructivism developed in other countries.

The influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne, which were displayed in the 1907 Salon d'Automne. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of choosing objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a lot of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.There are two main types of cubism, analytical cubism and synthetic cubism. Analytic cubism was mainly practiced by Braque, and is very simple, with dark, almost monochromatic colours.

 -i like this painting by braque because each section of the painting shows a significant amount of detail
- each cube and square has its own seperate section of light to mark out the woman.

(girl with mandolin)

. Synthetic cubism was much more energetic, and often made use of collage including the use of several two-dimensional materials. This type of cubism was developed by Picasso. During the two artists' time of collaboration from 1907 and ending with the First World War,

PABLO PICASSO

Pablo Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

 Among his most famous works is the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

Guernica (1937)                                                                                                                                

 a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary, artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.