Cubist Abstract 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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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1930s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1940s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor, Ink
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1940s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1910s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Crayon, India Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Gouache
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media