Cubism
This
revolutionary method of making a pictorial image was
invented by Picasso and Braque in the first decade of
the twentieth century. Although it may appear
abstract and geometrical, Cubist art does in fact
depict real objects. The objects are 'flattened' onto
the canvas so that different sides of each shape can
be shown simultaneously. Instead of creating the
illusion of an object in space, as artists had
endeavoured to do since the Renaissance, Cubist art
defines objects in terms of the two-dimensional
canvas. This innovation gave rise to an extraordinary
reassessment of the interaction between form and
space and changed the course of Western art forever.
Representative
painters:
Archipenko, Braque, Gleizes, Gris, Laurens,
Leger, Lipchitz, Metzinger, Picasso, Popova