Cubism

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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.

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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 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Analytical Cubism

Crystal Cubism
Cubism self-linksurface differs
surface form: Early Cubism

Cubism self-linksurface differs
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

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subject surface form: Di Cavalcanti
Joseph Stella influencedBy Cubism
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Orphism influencedBy Cubism
Orphism relatedTo Cubism
this entity surface form: Simultanism
Modern art hasMovement Cubism
stabiles influencedBy Cubism
Hans Hofmann influencedBy Cubism
Stuart Davis influencedBy Cubism
Lyubov Popova movement Cubism
Lyubov Popova influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: French Cubism
Robert Delaunay movement Cubism
Albert Gleizes movement Cubism
Jean Metzinger movement Cubism
Jean Metzinger style Cubism
Francis Picabia movement Cubism
Marie Laurencin movement Cubism
Precisionism influencedBy Cubism
Precisionism alsoKnownAs Cubism
this entity surface form: Cubist-Realism
The Greek influenced Cubism
Negro Period relatedTo Cubism
Grebo masks influenced Cubism
The Charnel House movement Cubism
Max Ernst influencedBy Cubism
Portrait of Picasso genre Cubism
Portrait of Picasso influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: Analytical Cubism
The Sunblind movement Cubism
The Sunblind influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: Analytical Cubism
The Sunblind influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: Synthetic Cubism
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: Analytical Cubism
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth influencedBy Cubism
this entity surface form: Synthetic Cubism