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    The Cubism art movement started around the 20th century. The very famous Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started this movement. Most Cubism art is a two-dimensional style. Weird shapes, lines and angles are what makes up this style of art. As this art movement became more popular and popular, Cubism art was changing and developing into an art that was basically a collage. Cubism art gave artist and people who generally just loved art, a new way to depict real life objects. Cubism art wasn’t…

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    techniques and styles throughout his career as an artist. Picasso’s ideas were a major contribution to the history of art, among those was his development of the modern art movement called Cubism, which is the use of collage as an artistic technique, which helped create assemblage within the sculpture. The basis of cubism started with just one painting by Pablo Picasso. It was one of the biggest paintings he had ever done which displayed five women whose heads looked as if they were painted on…

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    during this time?, Why might this have affected Cubism’s birth?) The term "cubism" was first used by the “French critic Louis Vauxcelles in his review of a 1908 exhibition of paintings by Georges Braques” (Carlson). Cubism is when an artist abandons perspective and makes artwork out of simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes, which leads to an unrealistic-looking painting with a blended foreground and background. Cubism was influenced by the increasing trade of the world with many new…

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    Impressionism In Art

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    contrast 6 paintings from the french impressionism genre, cubism genre, and lastly, the realism genre. Impressionism came about in the 19th century in Paris, France. Impressionism as an artistic style is vast. Post impressionism was created through impressionism. Before becoming the norm, the style was…

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    Due to the artistic influence of Paul Cézanne, artists such as, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were able to intensify and expand his artistic techniques, leading to the birth of Cubism. Paul Cézanne’s works and techniques paved the way for 20th century abstract art. Cézanne began his revolutionary shift towards Cubism and three-dimensional drawings when he decided to abandon the custom of perspective drawing. Reason being was largely due to…

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    soon to be contemporary movement would become the most influential movement of the first half of the twentieth century. That statement was used to describe a cubist painters work. Cubism was so revolutionizing because it moved away from the general art form of that time. Not fully abstract but abstracted from the norm, cubism went against the traditional view of the artist subject. There was a sense , to quote Picasso, to realize forms which will have their own life to live, the painters moved…

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    Picasso is very well known for his contributions to cubism. It seemed that Picasso did not like to stick with one technique for long; he was constantly changing. Pablo Picasso’s Cubism Period started in 1907, and he continued to use bits and pieces of cubism throughout his future artworks. “The basic cubist shapes were geometric renditions of cubes, squares, cylinders and cones. No longer were light and…

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    new era of art was called cubism. Many art experts agree that cubism was the most significant art movement of the twentieth century. With that said, we will analysis both of this art pieces, by examination their color, form, and space, which make up the different components of cubism. Cubism is known to be one of the most significant art movement of the twentieth century. It has been said that it had inspired other movements such as futurism, dada, and surrealism. Cubism is mostly made up of…

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    Cubism is a very di erent style of painting, and some may think that it is strange and not very visually appealing. The aesthetic rules of individual human brain may nd it di cult to follow, however, if broken into pieces, the color, perspective, and composition may nd a way to appeal and tell the story that is hidden within. Pablo Picasso executed this awlessly, and created the title for himself, the face of Cubism. Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He came from a…

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    signature Analytical Cubist style. Picasso uses his unique style to turn a common portrait into something abstract and whimsical. As stated in our notes Cubism was a movement invented by Picasso himself after the short lived Fauvist movement. In our text book Visual Arts in the 20th Century Lucie Smith compares these two movements saying, “Fauvism and Cubism were alike in one fundamental respect: each attempted to replace conceptual by perceptual reality, but the Cubists…

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