Pablo Picasso's Cubism: Visual Art Style

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Cubism

In the beginning of the 20th century, a visual art style , was created called Cubism. It was unlikely than others because they brought different views of subjects together in the same painting using angles, lines, and shapes. It was created by the French painter Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Cubism comes from the word "cubes" that was given by Vauxcelles after he had seen the landscapes of Braque. Cubism was really popular after Fauvism and before Bauhaus(see timeline)

One of the creatures of cubism was Pablo Picasso. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a man born on the 25th of October 1881 in Málaga. He was the oldest one and had two sisters Lola and Conchita.
At an age of seven
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Here you can see a man on a horse with 3 other man in the back. Guernica: Pablo has made this painting in 1937, it is an oil painting on a canvas. It is black, white and grey and know as the most powerful anti-war painting in history***
Maya with a doll: This painting has been painted in 1938. Pablo has painted his daughter playing with her daughter, in this painting Pablo is playing with colours and space.
Seated Woman: This one is painted in 1927, it is painted by oil paint. It is a woman in a chair drawn from 2 sides and made into 1 drawing
The Charnel House: This painting is painted in the year 1945. The Charnel House 1945 is Picasso’s most overtly political painting since Guernica of 1937****. It was based on a short film about a Spanish family who were killed in their

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