Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”
Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.
Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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20th Century Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1930s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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20th Century Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1930s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Early 20th Century Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1930s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1910s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1940s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Conté, Wax Crayon, Paper
1960s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Archival Ink, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Crayon, Board, Laid Paper
Early 20th Century Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
1940s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1960s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1920s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
India Ink
1950s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
India Ink
1930s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Charcoal, Paper
Early 20th Century Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache