Cubism was an art movement established by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the 20th century that has been an inspiration to movements in literature and music. This type of painting style differs from the paintings in the Impressionist period that focuses more on light and colours. Cubism focuses more on the basic geometric solid of the object. It has transformed European sculpture and paintings to a new art form. There are two branches of cubism:
- Synthetic Cubism – This is the second branch of cubism, which was developed by Gris, Picasso and Braque in the years between 1912 to 1919. The art is more on pushing multiple objects together. Picasso first used this in his painting “Still Life with Chair-caning” that included a piece of oilcloth attached on the canvas while Braque used the stuck paper technique in his collage “Fruit Dish and Glass”.
There are also three phases of cubism as described by Douglas Cooper, an English Art Historian:
- Early Cubism (1906-1908) – Picasso and Braque built up the movement in their studios.
- High Cubism (1909-1914) – Juan Gris emerged as one of the important advocate
- Late Cubism (1914-1921) – A radical Forward-thinking movement.
In this form of art, the object is dissected, analysed and then rebuilt in an abstract form in which the artist portrays his subject from several viewpoints that represent the subject in a larger context rather than a single viewpoint. One of cubism unique characteristic is that the object planes and the background penetrate each other creating a shallow uncertain space.
Here are some of the sample paintings:
Portrait of Picasso
Cubism art
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