Cubism

Cubism

In the world of art, Cubism is probably the most influential art movement in the history of the 20th Century Art. Cubism brought new ways of creating photographs and also showed new ways of representing nature. The new movement also brought in new

attitudes towards the surface of pictures and the application of paint. The ideas of

color theory were all changed. This caused a liberation of these elements from a just descriptive function have all featured in the development of Cubism. At the beginning of the first decade of this ending century two young artists began to try to make a name for themselves in the highly competitive Avant-Garde of Paris. One of them, Pablo Picasso, a young Spaniard who had moved to France had been an act of encouraging the latest developments of French paintings. The other artist was Georges Braque already a vanguard of modern painting as a practicing Fauve.

Cubism was started in 1907 and they were very inspired by African sculpting and the Fauves which is an early twentieth century art movement and style of painting in France. The name Fauves is French for "Wild Beasts," was given to artists pertaining to this style because it was felt that they used intense colors in a violent, uncontrolled way. There are three steps in the development of cubism. The first one is Facet Cubism, the next step is Analytic Cubism, and the last step is Synthetic Cubism.

In Cubism the artist takes a photograph and develops it, then cuts it up and reassembles it to make the photograph into an abstract piece of art. Usually the artist see’s the photograph from one view point, but in this style of art, the artist may see the photograph from multiple view points. Often in the photograph the surfaces intersect at random angles, removing sense of depth. One of Cubism’s distinct features is the objects in the pictures that go through each other and make shallow space.

Facet Cubism, Analytic Cubism, and Synthetic Cubism were the three...