Cubism: The First Avant-Garde Movement

The beginning of 20th century was a time of discoveries of new technology, introducing a new lifestyle, and new ideas. During that time, there were new creations, such as cars, radio, and telegraph. Such inventions affected masses of people. Life started going faster because the communication was much easier. The first avant-garde movement was in art and it was called Cubism. Cubism started in 1907 and continued through 1915. Cubism came from France and Spain. Cubists did not depend on its subjects anymore and decided to expand. It was not important to represent one particular thing, but to mix more than one way of painting together. The main point that cubist tried to do was to just get the point of the art across. Cubists’ intention was to produce a well-constructed composition of different elements and show that they know the object by heart. This technique involved many different steps. the first thing the artist had to do was examine the object and be able to draw it without looking at it from every angle. Then the cubist has to ‘dissect’ the object and pick different parts of the object. Then the cubist would insert different images of what they picked out, and overlay them onto a piece of paper. the cubists composition does not have to be a painting it just needs to be overlayed parts of the object. It could be made from different materials like cardboard, wood, or different textures of paper. Cubists work did not resemble reality …show more content…
The reason why Pablo Picasso enjoyed drawing cubism is because he liked all the geometric shapes that you can put together. the F-hole on the violin is displayed in many different ways in the painting which shows that the painting is cubism. The colors in the painting are also colours that blend in with one another (shades of different browns, blues, reds, greens, and