Cubist Art
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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1930s Cubist Art
Etching, Paper
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Linen
1980s Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
1940s Cubist Art
Lithograph, Paper
1920s Cubist Art
Oil
1960s Cubist Art
Etching, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Ceramic, Glaze
1950s Cubist Art
Etching, Paper
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
1950s Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
1980s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
1960s Cubist Art
Aquatint, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
1960s Cubist Art
Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching
20th Century Cubist Art
Wool
1920s Cubist Art
Etching
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Wood, Paint, Paper
1960s Cubist Art
Aquatint, Etching
1930s Cubist Art
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Wood, Acrylic
1910s Cubist Art
Color
1960s Cubist Art
Etching, Paper
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic, Canvas, Paper, India Ink, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil, Canvas
1960s Cubist Art
Etching, Aquatint, Paper
1910s Cubist Art
Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Paper, India Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Cubist Art
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1930s Cubist Art
Oil
1960s Cubist Art
Aquatint, Etching, Drypoint, Paper
2010s Cubist Art
Bronze
1950s Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil, Canvas
1980s Cubist Art
Lithograph, Paper
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
1950s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
1930s Cubist Art
Brass, Copper, Stainless Steel
1960s Cubist Art
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Cardboard, Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
1950s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
2010s Cubist Art
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Bronze
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Gouache, Cardboard