THE 19TH CENTURIES ART

Cubism
In fine art cubism describes the revolutionary style of painting invented by Pablo
Picasso (1881-1973) and George Braque (1882-1963) in Paris, during the period 1907-12. Their
cubist method initially influenced by the geometric motifs in the landscape compositions of the
post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne - radically redefined the nature and scope of fine art
painting and to a lesser extent, sculpture, as previously practiced, and heralded entirely new
ways of representing reality. To this extent, cubism marks the end of the renaissance-dominated
era, and the beginning of modern art.

Largely a type of semi abstract art although at times it approaches full-blown non objective art
cubism is traditionally classified into 3 stages:
1. Early cubist painting (1907-9)
2. Analytical cubism (1909-12)
3. Synthetic cubism (1912-14)