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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2010s Cubist Art
Black and White, Archival Pigment, Color, Photographic Paper, Archival P...
2010s Cubist Art
Found Objects, Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
2010s Cubist Art
India Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas, Paper
1930s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
2010s Cubist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
1930s Cubist Art
Ink
1920s Cubist Art
Board, Oil, Gouache
1960s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Cubist Art
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1970s Cubist Art
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Cardboard, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Pastel
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Mixed Media, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Mixed Media
1940s Cubist Art
Board
1930s Cubist Art
Paint
20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art
Wood, Acrylic
20th Century Cubist Art
Oil, Cardboard
1950s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1970s Cubist Art
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1930s Cubist Art
Etching
1930s Cubist Art
Pencil, Gouache
1970s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Etching, Paper
1980s Cubist Art
Paper, Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1970s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1950s Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
2010s Cubist Art
Oil Pastel, Ink, Sumi Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
2010s Cubist Art
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1960s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Lithograph
1950s Cubist Art
Etching
1970s Cubist Art
Lithograph
1980s Cubist Art
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil
1960s Cubist Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Cubist Art
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Oil