Cubist 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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1970s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board
1970s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings
Gouache
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1990s Cubist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Gesso, Birch, Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Linen
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic
Early 2000s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1970s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Board, Gesso, Birch
2010s Cubist Paintings
Gesso, Birch, Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Paintings
Gesso, Birch, Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Cubist Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Cubist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic