Cubism

<p>Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as<strong> the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century</strong>. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create <strong>flattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images</strong>.<br/><br/> Picasso’s celebrated painting <em>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</em> is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to <strong>multiple different viewpoints</strong>. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: <strong>Analytical Cubism</strong>, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later <strong>Synthetic Cubism</strong>, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper.<br/><br/> This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including <strong>Pablo Picasso</strong>, <strong>Georges Braque</strong>, <strong>Fernand Léger</strong>, <strong>Juan Gris</strong>, <strong>Albert Gleizes</strong>, and <strong>Robert Delaunay</strong>.</p>