Cubism
Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. The essence of cubism is that instead of viewing subjects from a single, fixed angle, the artist breaks them up into a multiplicity of facets, so that several different aspects/faces of the subject can be seen simultaneously. Cubism was originally inspired by African sculpture, by painters Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat, and by the Fauves.
In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form. It generally consists of a bunch of planes intersecting at angles that deny any recognizable presence of depth.
It began in 1906 with two artists — Georges Braque (French) and Pablo Picasso (Spanish) — who were living in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. They met in 1907, and worked together closely until World War I broke out in 1914.
The term "cubism" was first used by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1908. ("bizarre cubiques" = cubes). Afterwards the term was in wide use but the two creators of cubism refrained from using it for a long time.
See also
- Lyonel Feininger
- Roger de la Fresnaye
- Piet Mondriaan
- Amedee Ozenfant
- Joze Plecnik
- Sonia Delauney Terk
- Jacques Villon
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