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.
Find a collection of authentic Cubist paintings, prints and multiples, sculptures and more art on 1stDibs.
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, C...
1950s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
1970s Cubist Art
Marble
20th Century Cubist Art
Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Acrylic, Board
1990s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1910s Cubist Art
Woodcut
2010s Cubist Art
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Photo...
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Acrylic, Canvas
1960s Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Linocut
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
1960s Cubist Art
Offset, Lithograph
20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Watercolor
1930s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Cubist Art
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Watercolor
1960s Cubist Art
Oil, Board
1960s Cubist Art
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Pencil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
1930s Cubist Art
Paper, Charcoal
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1940s Cubist Art
Etching
1960s Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Wood, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Glass, Mixed Media
1930s Cubist Art
Engraving, Etching
1940s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1940s Cubist Art
Etching
1950s Cubist Art
Etching
1930s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
1960s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Etching
1950s Cubist Art
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
1960s Cubist Art
Oil, Board
2010s Cubist Art
Pencil
1960s Cubist Art
Oil