Inspired by Cubism
Cubism is one of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century. Cubist works revolutionised Western traditions of representation. In fact, Alfred Barr, the first director of MoMA, saw cubism as one of the precursors to abstract art. Despite its importance and notoriety, Cubism can be difficult to understand. Here's a short summary to help you understand how this important movement came about and changed the course of art history.
The key ideas of Cubism were first born in Cézanne's works. At the end of the 19th century, the painter began to still lifes and landscapes that were more geometric. The artist famously stated that "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective". Primitive art, especially masks and objects of African tribes, also played a role in the birth of the Cubism. Cubist artists were interested in the method of construction which focussed on the use of very simple shapes such as circles and lines but which nonetheless produced objects which seemed to have an inner force and almost "magical" or 'mystical' feel to them.
Cubism first appeared at the end of the first decade of the 20th century thanks to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The work that is seen as announcing the beginning of the movement is Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1906-1907). An impressive painting of five women with their bodies distorted into angular and geometric. From 1908 to 1910, Picasso and Braque developed a cubism called "Cézannien". The forms and figures were becoming more geometric but still remained very recognisable, as in Nature morte au compotier de Braque in 1908.
Cubism is above all the fragmentation of the visual world as we see it. It is a search for a new mode of representation, one in which the artists take full advantage of the flexibility that painting and sculpture offer them. They discovered in painting could allow them to represent an object from several points of view simultaneously. Thus began the "analytical" cubism that developed from 1910 to 1912. The artists' palette became more restricted and less saturated, the subjects are painted with all in fragmented facets. The compositions could sometimes be difficult to read, bordering on the fully abstract despite being grounded in the representation of the world.
Then, from 1912 to 1914 came "synthetic" cubism. Braque first, and then Picasso, started to experiment with collage and created compositions using a variety of materials. They used pieces of newspapers and even included puns in their works.
In parallel to Picasso and Braque's cubism, painters such as Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger developed another style of cubism nicknamed the "cubism of the salons" because their works were accepted by the Parisian salons. This style of cubism tended to be more colourful and less abstract as it focussed on a geometrisation of forms and figures. The Cubist style continued to spread throughout Europe throughout the early 20th century.
Explore our selection of emerging and renowned contemporary artists who have been inspired by Picasso and Braque and who demonstrate that Cubism continues to exist even in the 21st century.
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Vik Muniz
Woman with fan, after Picasso (Pictures of Pigment), 2007
60 x 40 inch
Photography
$37,000
Mauri Aybar & Andrea Castiglione
Head of woman reading - hand made glass mosaic artwork, 2021
31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
Sculpture
$2,149
Mauri Aybar & Andrea Castiglione
3 eyes - hand made glass mosaic artwork, 2021
31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
Sculpture
$2,149
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Divas, champagne, and bla bla bla #2, 2019
25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
Fine Art Drawings
$918
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