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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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.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Picasso’s portrait of Kahnweiler presents the essential innovations of Analytic Cubism.
Cubist Sculpture I
Guitar demonstrates the breakdown between art and life that becomes a key theme of twentieth-century sculpture.
Synthetic Cubism, Part II
Cubist collage had an enormous influence on modern art in the 20th century.
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