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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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 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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Atelier series movement Cubism
Atelier series associatedWith Cubism
this entity surface form: French Cubism
École des Beaux-Arts du Havre movement Cubism
subject surface form: Georges Braque
Gilot movement Cubism
subject surface form: Pablo Picasso
Jacques Villon movement Cubism
Gray Tree influencedBy Cubism
Gray Tree movement Cubism
Salon d'Automne notableFor Cubism
Woman II influencedBy Cubism
Woman III influencedBy Cubism
Excavation influencedBy Cubism
Franz Kline influencedBy Cubism
José Victoriano movement Cubism
José Victoriano style Cubism
this entity surface form: Synthetic Cubism
André Lhote movement Cubism
Marie-Thérèse movement Cubism
subject surface form: Pablo Picasso
Wifredo Lam movement Cubism
Wifredo Lam influencedBy Cubism
BLAST influencedBy Cubism
Hannah Höch influencedBy Cubism
Merzbau influencedBy Cubism
José Victoriano González-Pérez artStyle Cubism
this entity surface form: synthetic Cubism
Jean Crotti movement Cubism
Jean Crotti influencedBy Cubism
David Smith influencedBy Cubism
Nevelson influencedBy Cubism
subject surface form: Louise Nevelson
Gelmeroda series movement Cubism
The Picasso movement Cubism