Cubism


 * Cubism** - 1907-1917
 * Analytic Cubism** - 1925-1929

media type="flickr" key="13386699@N00" ARG0="&tags=cubism&lang=en-us&format=rss_200" width="500" height="500" Cubism Movement - The Joint invention of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the movement allowed for artists to comment on modern life as well as investigating how they percieve the world.

Background on Picasso - Born in Malaga, Spain, and taught at Madrid's National Art Academy, Picasso basically mastered art when he was at the age of 14. His father, an Art Professor, gave him his pallet at this age because he had learned just about every technique that his father could teach him.

The Launch of Cubism - The result of his work named **Les Demoiselles D'Avignon** were enormous because the work launched tis movement; Cubism. The style was one that the art world had never seen before, as he portrayed the prostitutes or "young ladies" in a style that made them blend into the picture. No artist had ever used broken and distorted forms as Picasso did and Georges Braque saw the potential in Picasso.

Analytic Cubism - This stage in the Cubist movement came along with the reduction of natures many colors, the landscapes and the scenes were depicted with the same broken and distorted forms that Picasso had intended, but this time with the basic brown and green. (Works included **Houses at L'Estaque** and **Violin and Palette**)

Further Extensions of Cubism - French Extensions - Robert Delaunay created his Cubist artwork **Homage to Bleriot** with more color and more abstract views than Picasso and Braque had intended; nonetheless the tribute to the French Pilot who flew across the English channel inspired the art world. Italian Extensions - Futurism emerged here in Italy on February, 1909, and changed how the world not only viewed the Cubist movement but also the way art was made. Famous works such as **Unique Forms of Continuity in Space** came out of this extension in an aim to both free Italy from its past and to promote a new taste for the thrilling speed, energy, and power of modern technology and modern urban life.