Cubism C. 1907/ Present

Cubism Defined: Elements such as objects and figures are broken into a variety of planes through use of geometry, depicting multiple points of view and the passage of time in the same work.

Cubism: Considered one of the most influential art movements of the 20 th Century as well as contemporary art, music, literature and architecture.

Influenced works in other fields  Poetry  Novels—William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying  Music  Film

These two are credited with starting Cubism Pablo Picasso Georges Braque

Georges Braque Violin and Candlestick 1910

Pablo Picasso Seated Nude

Summer of 1911 Pablo Picasso Still Life With Bottle of Rum 1911 Georges Braque Still Life With Bandelliras 1911

Georges Braque Still Life with Pair of Banderillas

Pablo Picasso Still Life With Bottle of Rum 1911

Paul Cezanne — cubists influenced by his style and approach to the passage of time. Still Life, Drapery, Pitcher and Fruit Bowl

Paul Cezanne Mill at the River Watercolor

Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire 1887

Fernand Leger Work influenced by Cezanne 1907 exhibition La Femme en Bleu 1912

Henri Matisse —also influenced Cubism Fauves Group Woman With a Hat 1905

Cubism influenced by African Art Fang Mask used in search for sorcerers—19 th Century

Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1907

Picasso’s cubist sculpture Head of a Woman 1910

Le Corbusier ( Charles- Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) Cubism in architecture Heidi Weber Museum 1960

Cubism “It is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of Cubism. It was a revolution in the visual arts as great as that which took place in the early Renaissance. Its effects on later art, on film, and on architecture are already so numerous that we hardly notice them.” John Berger