Cubism

Cubism is an art period that followed after the art period Fauvism.

Cubism is one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth

century. It was begun by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, by

Cezanne's influence in 1907.

The leading artists in the cubist period were Pablo Picasso, Georges

Brack, Paul Cezanne, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, Marcel

Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes and Matisse. These artists

all contributed to the cubist art movement in their own individual

way.

Cubism sprung from a comment made by French Painter Paul Cezanne.

Cezanne claimed "All nature is made up of the cone, the cylinder and

the sphere". Cubists liked this idea. So therefore they decided to

focus on the forms Cezanne was talking about, and they painted the

world and objects as if they were really made up of geometric shapes.

At first, their works shocked people. It was unrealistic and quite

unlike traditional art styles.

The cubists were interested in the way we look at the world. They

noticed how things take on different shapes when we see them from

different view points, for that reason cubists in some artworks

painted many views of the same object together in one painting.

Through this technique Cubists found a new way of capturing the 3D

world on a flat artists canvas. In cubism the subject matter was

broken up, analysed, and reassembled in an abstracted form. It was

made of simplified forms and geometrical shapes broken into panes wi...