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Cubism
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Cubism was an early twentieth century movement in painting and sculpture, developed primarily by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque beginning around 1907, that broke represented objects into geometric facets and reassembled them to show multiple viewpoints at once rather than a single fixed perspective. It fractured the single viewpoint tradition that had governed Western painting since the Renaissance and opened the way toward abstraction across the rest of the twentieth century.
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Founded In PlaceParis, France, developed jointly by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque from about 1907 to 1908 1 Key PrincipleObjects broken into geometric facets and reassembled to show multiple viewpoints at once, rejecting the single fixed perspective of prior Western painting 1 Disputed
End YearCubism had no single end date. Its analytic and synthetic phases gave way gradually through the 1910s and into the 1920s as its innovations were absorbed into later movements, so 1920 marks only the point historians most often cite for its decline as an organized movement. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Assemblage, Art Forms Picasso and Braque's Cubist constructions and papiers colles of 1912 to 1914 are assemblage's direct lineage.
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Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learningchapter on Cubism
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningMovement Members: Pablo Picasso, chapter on Cubism, section on Picasso
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningMovement Members: Georges Braque, chapter on Cubism, section on Georges Braque
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningMovement Members: Guernica, chapter on Cubism and its aftermath, section on Picasso, Guernica
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningMovement Members: Houses at L'Estaque, chapter on Cubism, section on Georges Braque
Assemblage (Britannica)
Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
New World EncyclopediaInfluenced By: Ukiyo-e, Western influence sectionQuote, Influenced By: Ukiyo-e, Western influence section
Ukiyo-e prints reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century and enjoyed particular acclaim in France, becoming a source of inspiration for cubism and for many impressionist painters.
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