Cubism.

Influenced by many people and it still carry's on today.

It was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.  Cubism is inspired by  movement in music and literature. Spaniard Juan Gris also started Cubism.

Cubism is analyzed in multitudes of angles and shapes, they use a series of viewpoints to create their work.

Picasso and Braque followed the advice of Paul Cezanne who said in 1904 Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone.

Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, remaking a coherent sense of depth.

The background and the objects in their work overlap to create a  shallow space which is hard to define, this is one of the distinct characteristics.

Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907    


This was the first cubism painting, he was influenced  by Cezanne, Fauvists and African sculptures. The faces of the women show the relation to the African sculptures.

The first branch of cubism, known as analytic cubism was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 in France.

In second phase, synthetic cubism the art movement, spread and remained vital until around 1919.

Color was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre.

Both painters Picasso and Braque moved towards abstraction, leaving only few signs of the real world.