| Cubist paintings changed the course of modern art. Cubism broke all the "rules" of art-perspective. It was flat, bodies were fragmented and angular, and colors were unnatural. The Cubists were the first artists to paste paper onto the canvas as a part of the painting. Like other innovative styles of art, Cubism shook up the art world before it was accepted and finally recognized for its genius. In
1907 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began their Cubist experiments.
They were partly inspired by Cezanne's method of arranging subjects
to emphasize their solidity. The geometric style of African sculpture
also influenced their ideas. The term cubism was applied to their
approach because they seemed to reduce objects to geometric shapes.
A better description is that Picasso and Braque took their subjects
apart and put them back together in new ways, distorting shapes,
rearranging parts, reconstructing the subject so it became something
totally new and different. Like Fauve art, Cubism involved visual
experimentation; the Cubists experimented with shape and forms,
the Fauves with color, line, and pattern. Three quarters of a
century later Cubism can still be difficult to understand, because
the Cubists in their most theoretical art were not concerned with
emotions or message. |
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Significant Cubist Artists:
Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973
Georges Braque, 1882-1963
Jaun Gris, 1887-1927
Fernand Leger, 1881-1955