Surely you’ll find the exact cubist cat you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. If you’re looking for a cubist cat from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right cubist cat for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of
brown,
beige,
black and
pink. Finding an appealing cubist cat — no matter the origin — is easy, but
Linda Le Kinff,
Graciela Rodo Boulanger,
Raymond Debieve,
Pablo Picasso and
Wifredo Lam each produced popular versions that are worth a look. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in
oil paint,
paint and
canvas. A large cubist cat can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller cubist cat, measuring 10 high and 8 wide, may better suit your needs.
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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