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Modern Art
The first abstract style of modern art was cubism. -
Paul Cezanne
He liked to flatten the space in his paintings to place more emphasis on their surface - to stress the difference between a painting and reality. He saw painting in more abstract terms as the construction and arrangement of colour on a two-dimensional surface. -
Cubism.
Picasso and Braque developed their ideas on Cubism around 1907 in Paris and their starting point was a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cezanne.
Cubism- The first abstract style of modern art. -
Abstract.
The new way of seeing was called cubism- the first abstract style of modern art. -
African Art
The Cubists believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and another remedy they applied to revitalize their work was to draw on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, especially African art. -
Viewpoint
The Cubists proposed that your sight of an object is the sum of many different views and your memory of an object is not constructed from one angle, as in perspective, but from many angles selected by your sight and movement. -
Perspective
A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows you many views of a subject at one time. -
Analytical Cubism
the artist analysed the subject from many different viewpoints and reconstructed it within a geometric framework, the overall effect of which was to create an image that evoked a sense of the subject. These fragmented images were unified by the use of a subdued and limited palette of colours. -
Synthetic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism moved away from the unified monochrome surfaces of Analytic Cubism to a more direct, colourful and decorative style. -
George Braque.
Braque and Picasso developed their ideas on Cubism around 1907 in Paris and their starting point was a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cezanne. -
Pablo Picasso.
Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braque.
