![]() ![]() It is the search for a new model of representation, a model where artists take full advantage of the flexibility that painting and sculpture offer them. The forms were more geometric but still very recognizable, as in Still Life with a Fruit Bowl by Braque in 1908.Ĭubism is above all the fragmentation of the visual world as we see it. From 1908 to 1910, Picasso and Braque developed a 'Cézannien' cubism. This impressive painting depicts five women with angular bodies. The work that definitively announced the beginning of the movement is Picasso's painting Les demoiselles d'Avignon (1906-1907). Artists were interested in their method of construction that focused on the use of very simple elemental forms such as circles or lines, but still produced objects that had an inner strength.Ĭubism really appeared at the end of the first decade of the 20th century thanks to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Primitive art, especially the masks and objects of African tribes, also played a role in the birth of the movement. He even declared that "it is necessary to see nature through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, and all of it put into perspective". At the end of the 19th century, the painter began to geometrize, though subtly, still lifes and landscapes. The key ideas of Cubism first came into being with the works of Cézanne. Read on for a short summary of this art movement, which changed the course of art history. Despite its importance and notoriety, Cubism is sometimes difficult to understand. Alfred Barr, the first director of MoMA, considered Cubism to be one of the precursor movements of abstract art. Cubist works revolutionized the traditions of representation in the Western world. ![]() Cubism is one of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century. ![]()
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