Cubism

Femme en Pleurs - Picasso "Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view."   - Jacques Lipchitz     Cubism was a 20th century art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. It developed as a short but highly significant art movement between about 1907 and 1914 in France.     In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form — instead of painting objects from one viewpoint, the artist paints the subject from a variety of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.     Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles presenting no coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interact one another to create the ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism.

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