Cubism: Changing the Course of Art for the 20th Century

Cubism is a form of art that was created, mainly, by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The style emphasizes a flat, two-dimensional plane, contradictory to the techniques of perspective and foreshortening. The main distinguishing characteristic between cubism and other styles such as impressionism is that cubism does portray nature in art. Cubist painters are not limited to painting a certain color, or form, or a certain texture. Cubism broke objects down …

…look at a picture done by Pablo Picasso we think, or we hear, something about the painting being arbitrary and not having any meaning, as if the shapes were just placed anywhere. We feel that although the paintings are broken up into geometric shapes one can see parts of the object that the artists wanted them the shape to represent. This indicates to us that their pictures were planned rather than arbitrarily done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**