Picasso and Braque revolutionized painting with their new approach to representation.
c. 1907 - 1939
Beginner's guide
Cubism is a terrible name. Except for a very brief moment, the style has nothing to do with cubes.
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Marc Chagall, Half-Past Three (The Poet)
Chagall renders conventional, but strikingly personal, elements of his Parisian studio in a truly unconventional way: as a set of intersecting and overlapping lines and prismatic planes
Fernand Léger, Untitled (Fireplace Mural)
Leger's late Cubism so elegantly seen in this mural for a fireplace.
How to paint like Pablo Picasso (Cubism)
Learn how to paint in the Cubist style of artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Cubist Sculpture II
Cubist sculpture challenged the European sculptural tradition in terms of form, media, and often subject matter.
Pablo Picasso, Three Women
Maintaining a precarious balance between representation and abstraction, Picasso and Braque saw themselves as pursuing a daring and dangerous course.
The Cubist City – Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger
Delaunay and Léger used Cubism’s abstract language of fractured forms and spatial dislocations to express the modern urban experience.
Georges Braque, Violin and Palette
Despite its often baffling innovations, one of the defining features of Cubism is its engagement with the Western painting tradition.
Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians
Three Musicians looks like a collage made from cut out pieces of colored paper — but it is an oil painting.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist Musicians
When we consider what a Cubist painting represents we engage in an intellectual or conceptual activity rather than a merely perceptual or visual one.
Cubism and multiple perspectives
This use of multiple perspectives was a hallmark of the Cubist style, but Braque and Picasso never explained why they employed this technique.
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