![]() In the first phase Cubists reduced objects to just a series of overlapping planes and lines mostly in near-monochromatic browns, greys or blacks. ![]() ![]() Over the years, Cubism developed into two distinct phases: the initial and more austere Analytic Cubism, and later phase of the movement known as Synthetic Cubism. The name Cubism derived from a comment made by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who described some of Georges Braque’s paintings exhibited in Paris in 1908 and influenced by the late work of the Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne as reducing everything to ‘geometric outlines, to cubes’.Ĭubism is seen as a revolutionary movement that rejected to consider art as a pure imitation of nature and refused to adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, which had been used to depict space since the Renaissance. Cubist artists wanted instead to emphasize the two-dimensional flatness of the canvas. In their artworks objects are analysed, broken up into a multitude of small facets and then reassembled into geometric forms to evoke the same figures and to show the subjects from multiple views. By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas or planes, the artists aimed to propose a revolutionary new approach to represent reality. It was founded around 19 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque with the aim to reject the traditional techniques of perspective, modelling and chiaroscuro and refuting the idea of art as pure imitation of nature. ![]() Cubism was one of the most influential art movement of the 20 th century. ![]()
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