Cubism

(noun)

An artistic movement in the early 20th century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.

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  • space
  • avant-garde
  • minimalism
  • Blue Period
  • Fauvism
  • representational
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • American Realism
  • Clement Greenberg
  • primitivism
  • neo-colonial
  • precursors
  • Surrealism

(noun)

An early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, where objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form.

Related Terms

  • medium
  • space
  • avant-garde
  • minimalism
  • Blue Period
  • Fauvism
  • representational
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • American Realism
  • Clement Greenberg
  • primitivism
  • neo-colonial
  • precursors
  • Surrealism

Examples of Cubism in the following topics:

  • Other Forms of Cubism

    • Futurism and Constructivism developed from Cubism in Italy and Russia respectively.
    • Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century .
    • Severini was the first to come into contact with Cubism.
    • This is a seminal work from the Futurist movement which was influenced by Cubism.
    • Georges Braque, with Picasso, was one of the founders of Cubism.
  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is widely known for his involvement in Cubism and Primitivism.
    • Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.
    • Marcel Duchamp was responsible for another extreme development inspired by Cubism.
    • Georges Braque, with Picasso, was one of the founders of Cubism.
    • Identify Picasso's unique importance to the development of both Primitivism and Cubism in the early 20th century.
  • Picasso

    • While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).
    • Analytic cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors.
    • Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919) was a further development of the genre, in which cut paper fragments—often wallpaper or portions of newspaper pages—were pasted into compositions, marking the first use of collage in fine art .
  • The Armory Show

    • Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism were among the European avant-garde schools represented.
    • Discuss the influence of the Armory Show in introducing the artistic styles of impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to the American public.
  • Vorticism

    • Vorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a brief modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early twentieth century.
    • The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre established by Lewis as a break with other traditional schools, and had its intellectual and artistic roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism.
    • Lewis saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism.
    • Though the style grew out of Cubism, it is more closely related to Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age, and all things modern.
    • However, Vorticism diverged from both Cubism and Futurism in the way it tried to capture movement in an image.
  • Abstract Sculpture

    • Modern abstract sculpture developed alongside other avant-garde movements of the early 20th century like Cubism and Surrealism.
    • Discuss the evolution of abstract sculpture through the periods of Cubism and Surrealism, naming the important works of Rodin, Picasso, Duchamp, and Brâncuşi.
  • Art Informel in Europe

    • Often referred to the School of Paris, tachisme was a reaction to Cubism and is characterized by spontaneous brushwork, paint dripped straight from the tube onto canvas, and scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.
  • The Early 20th Century

    • Einstein's Theory of Relativity contributed to the development of cubism, and developments in psychology greatly influenced the subject matter of a number of artistic schools of thought.
  • Sculpture

    • Modernist sculpture movements include Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Formalism Abstract expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimalism, Land art, and Installation art.
  • Deconstructivism

    • One example of deconstructivist complexity is Frank Gehry's Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, which takes the typical unadorned white cube of modernist art galleries and deconstructs it, using geometries reminiscent of cubism and abstract expressionism.
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