Cubism

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Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.

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instanceOf art movement
avant-garde movement
modern art movement
author Albert Gleizes
Jean Metzinger
coreConcept breakdown of objects into geometric facets
emphasis on structure over illusion
representation of objects from multiple angles at once
two-dimensionality of the picture plane
countryOfOrigin France
field collage
painting
printmaking
sculpture
hasCharacteristic flattened pictorial space
fragmentation of form
geometric simplification
limited color palette in early phase
multiple viewpoints
overlapping planes
rejection of linear perspective
simultaneity of viewpoints
hasCreator Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
hasEndTime 1920s
hasEtymology derived from "cube"
hasInfluenced Abstract art
Architecture
Constructivism
De Stijl
Futurism
Graphic design
Literature
Orphism
Photography
Purism
linked to: Minimalism

Sculpture
Vorticism
hasLanguageOfName English
hasMajorFigure Albert Gleizes
Diego Rivera
Fernand Léger
Francis Picabia
Gino Severini
Henri Le Fauconnier
Jean Metzinger
Juan Gris
Lyonel Feininger
Marcel Duchamp
Robert Delaunay
hasPart Analytical Cubism
linked to: Cubism

Crystal Cubism
Early Cubism
linked to: Cubism

Synthetic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
hasStartTime 1907
historicalContext interwar period
pre–World War I Europe
mainRegion Paris
movementAssociatedWith Puteaux Group
Salon Cubism
Section d'Or
movementType non-representational tendency
proto-abstract art
notableExhibition 1911 Salon des Indépendants
1911 Salon d’Automne
notablePublication Du "Cubisme"
opposedTo illusionistic naturalism
traditional Renaissance perspective
typicalSubjectMatter cafés and interiors
landscape
musical instruments
portrait
still life
usedMedium charcoal
collage materials
newsprint
oil paint
sand mixed with paint

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Art Deco influencedBy Cubism
Pablo Picasso movement Cubism
Pablo Picasso coFounded Cubism
Pablo Picasso period Analytic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Pablo Picasso period Synthetic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Modernism associatedWith Cubism
The Card Players hasInfluenced Cubist painters
linked to: Cubism
Georges Seurat influenced Cubism
Lee Krasner influencedBy Cubism
Arshile Gorky influencedBy Cubism
Cubism hasPart Analytical Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Cubism hasPart Synthetic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Cubism hasPart Early Cubism
linked to: Cubism
El Greco influenced Cubism
Three Musicians movement Cubism
Three Musicians influencedBy Analytic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Dora Maar au Chat movement Cubism
African art–influenced Period followedBy Analytical Cubism
linked to: Cubism
African art–influenced Period influenced Analytical Cubism
linked to: Cubism
African art–influenced Period movement Proto-Cubism
linked to: Cubism
David Hockney influencedBy Cubism
Juan Gris movement Cubism
Juan Gris knownFor Synthetic Cubism
linked to: Cubism
Fernand Léger movement Cubism
Paul Klee movement Cubism
Georges Braque movement Cubism
The Weeping Woman genre Cubism
Piet Mondrian influencedBy Cubism
Joan Miró influencedBy Cubism
Montmartre associatedWith Cubism
Dada influencedBy Cubism
Vorticism influencedBy Cubism