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Description of Cubism
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About Cubism
Description of Cubism |
Cubism
Term
derived
from
a
reference
made
to
‘geometric
schemas
and
cubes’
by
the
critic
Louis
Vauxcelles
in
describing
paintings
exhibited
in
Paris
by
Georges
Braque
in
November
1908;
it
is
more
generally
applied
not
only
to
work
of
this
period
by
Braque
and
Pablo
Picasso
but
also
to
a
range
of
art
produced
in
France
during
the
later
1900s,
the
1910s
and
the
early
1920s
and
to
variants
developed
in
other
countries.
Although
the
term
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Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
Cubism
Term derived from a reference made to ‘geometric schemas and cubes’ by the critic Louis Vauxcelles in describing paintings exhibited in Paris by Georges Braque in November 1908; it is more generally applied not only to work of this period by Braque and Pablo Picasso but also to a range of art produced in France during the later 1900s, the 1910s and the early 1920s and to variants developed in other countries. Although the term is not specifically applied to a style of architecture except in former Czechoslovakia, architects did share painters’ formal concerns regarding the conventions of representation and the dissolution of three-dimensional form. Cubism cannot definitively be called either a style, the art of a specific group or even a movement. It embraces widely disparate work; it applies to artists in different milieux; and it produced no agreed manifesto. Yet, despite the difficulties of definition, it has been called the first and the most influential of all movements in 20th-century art.
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