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What is Cubism ?
Cubism is an art movement in the 20th century that completely changed
European painting. Instead of viewing and displaying subjects from one
fixed angle, Cubism breaks the subject up into a multiplicity of facets.
This way several different aspects/faces of the subject can be displayed
simultaneously. Cubism presented a new reality in painting.
Inspired by Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat, Cubism found its roots in
the collaboration between Pablo Picasso (Spain) and Georges Braque
(France) between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist movement itself was not
very long-lived or widespread, but it did have a massive influence on latter
20th century art movements such as precisionism, futurism and
to some degree also expressionism.
The period from 1910 to 1912 often is referred to as that of Analytical
Cubism. In an analytical cubist painting, the object was "taken apart"
and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes. Paintings
frequently combine representational motifs with letters, the latter
emphasizing the painter's concern with abstraction.
During World War I (1914-1918), Picasso and Braque's collaboration
ended. Despite this a core group of Cubist artists remained active till
the 1920's.
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