Cubist Figurative 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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1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1910s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1940s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Pastel
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media, Cardboard
1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Foam Board
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Charcoal, Ink, Wax, Cardboard
1920s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Gouache
1940s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1910s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic