Cubism
E12529
Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
Aliases (8)
- Analytical Cubism ×3
- Synthetic Cubism ×3
- Analytic Cubism ×2
- Du "Cubisme" ×2
- Cubist painters ×1
- Early Cubism ×1
- Proto-Cubism ×1
- cubism ×1
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
→
avant-garde movement → modern art movement → |
| author |
Albert Gleizes
→
Jean Metzinger → |
| coreConcept |
breakdown of objects into geometric facets
→
emphasis on structure over illusion → representation of objects from multiple angles at once → two-dimensionality of the picture plane → |
| countryOfOrigin | France → |
| field |
collage
→
painting → printmaking → sculpture → |
| hasCharacteristic |
flattened pictorial space
→
fragmentation of form → geometric simplification → limited color palette in early phase → multiple viewpoints → overlapping planes → rejection of linear perspective → simultaneity of viewpoints → |
| hasCreator |
Georges Braque
→
Pablo Picasso → |
| hasEndTime | 1920s → |
| hasEtymology | derived from "cube" → |
| hasInfluenced |
Abstract art
→
Architecture → Constructivism → De Stijl → Futurism → Graphic design → Literature → Orphism → Photography → Minimalism →
surface form: "Purism"
Sculpture → Vorticism → |
| hasLanguageOfName | English → |
| hasMajorFigure |
Albert Gleizes
→
Diego Rivera → Fernand Léger → Francis Picabia → Gino Severini → Henri Le Fauconnier → Jean Metzinger → Juan Gris → Lyonel Feininger → Marcel Duchamp → Robert Delaunay → |
| hasPart |
Cubism
→
surface form: "Analytical Cubism"
Crystal Cubism → Cubism →
surface form: "Early Cubism"
Cubism →
surface form: "Synthetic Cubism"
|
| hasStartTime | 1907 → |
| historicalContext |
interwar period
→
pre–World War I Europe → |
| mainRegion | Paris → |
| movementAssociatedWith |
Puteaux Group
→
Salon Cubism → Section d'Or → |
| movementType |
non-representational tendency
→
proto-abstract art → |
| notableExhibition |
Salon des Indépendants
→
surface form: "1911 Salon des Indépendants"
1911 Salon d’Automne → |
| notablePublication | Du "Cubisme" → |
| opposedTo |
illusionistic naturalism
→
traditional Renaissance perspective → |
| typicalSubjectMatter |
cafés and interiors
→
landscape → musical instruments → portrait → still life → |
| usedMedium |
charcoal
→
collage materials → newsprint → oil paint → sand mixed with paint → |
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Analytical Cubism"
this entity surface form: "Cubist painters"
this entity surface form: "Analytical Cubism"
this entity surface form: "Analytic Cubism"
this entity surface form: "Proto-Cubism"
this entity surface form: "Analytic Cubism"
this entity surface form: "Synthetic Cubism"
this entity surface form: "cubism"