1. Pablo Picasso

2. Pablo Picasso ( )
Picasso was one of the best known Spanish artists of the 20th century, had a long, productive career creating art in a wide range of styles and forms. He showed remarkable artistic talent as a child and had his first exhibition when he was 13 years old. “Three Musicians” is an example of Picasso’s cubist painting style.
Discuss with your partner why this style is known as “cubism”.

3. Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalize the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age. Cubism was the first abstract art style. Cubist painting abandoned the tradition of perspective drawing and displayed many views of a subject at one time.