CUBISM

-Cubism is an early 20th century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and George Braque  that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music,
-Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th-century.
- A primary influence that led to Cubism stems from the representation of three-dimensional form produced during the late 1900s by Paul Cézanne, following a retrospective at the 1907 Salon d’Automne
-In Cubist artworks, objects are analyzed, broken up and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
-The beginnings of Cubism have been dated between 1907 and 1911.
-The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1911 in a room called ‘Salle 41’; it included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, yet no works by Picasso and Braque were exhibited.
-During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the European cultural elite were discovering African, Micronesian and Native American art for the first time. Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso were intrigued and inspired by the stark power and simplicity of styles of those foreign cultures.
Paul Cezanne

Pablo Picasso

Geoerges Braque