| Around the time of 1906, two distinct artists by the names of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques, began the art movement known today as Cubism. After the painting called "Yound Ladies of Avignon", by Picasso was produced, Cubism gained its large amount of recognition. This form of art was mainly inspired by Cezanne's art works, which looked much like flat pictures, without dimension. Slowly as the two played around with this new form, there came to be two different types of Cubism. One was known as Analytical Cubism, which began about the year of 1908. The painted "object was 'taken apart' and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes" (contemporaryart.com). The second type, which began in 1912, was called Synthetic Cubism. Both these types of Cubism are clearly distinct within Picasso, Braque and other popular Cubism artists. This type of Cubism had "bits of real objects worked into a picture" (artcyclopedia.com). Overall, "the Cubists threw out the traditional techniques of perspective, rejected foreshortening and the imitation of nature. They represented a new reality in paintings that depict radically fragmented objects in multiple views" (ee.pdx.edu). |
