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Cubism

Picasso and Braque revolutionized painting with their new approach to representation. Building on the work of Cézanne, Matisse and others, Cubism began to deconstruct linear perspective, fragmenting and then reconstructing form. Cubism has been traditionally divided. First came the analytic phase, followed by the synthetic phase. Recent scholarship has found this division less useful but it is still taught.