cubism

     

Cubism was a 20th century art movement, pioneere by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

Trivia about cubism

  • Primarily a movement in painting, this "square" trend also influenced sculpture
  • "Shapely" early 20th century atristic style seen here
  • Along with Picasso & Braque, Juan Gris was a leading member of this movement
  • Cezanne's later paintings & African sculpture were 2 great influences on Picasso's development of this movement
  • In his "Homage to Picasso", Spanish artist Juan Gris tried his hand at this movement
  • Like Picasso & Braque, painter Juan Gris was an exponent of this art movement
  • This style of Picasso & Braque was broken into 2 phases, analytic & synthetic
  • Robert Delaunay introduced vivid colors to this "geometric" movement, beginning a trend called Orphism
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew compares two paintings on the monitor.) The work here from 1906 doesn't quite prepare us for the launch of this art movement by the same artist 1 year later
  • Don't call Gertrude Stein a "block"head, though she played with the literary form of this Braque art style
  • Picasso described this art movement as "An art dealing primarily with forms"
  • Picasso's "square" style(6)
  • Some consider the painting seen here to be the first in this modern style
  • "-ism" exemplified by "Man with a Guitar"
  • Around 1912 Robert Delaunay brought color to the forefront of this -ism, thereby creating Orphism
  • The analytic type of this style broke the world into fragments; the synthetic type put it together