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Cubism (Early 20th Century)


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 ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Cubism — 31 artists:

Alexander Archipenko
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Maria Blanchard
Georges Braque
Patrick Henry Bruce
Henri Gaudier Brzeska
Carlo Carra
Roger de la Fresnaye
Robert Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger
Albert Gleizes
Natalia Goncharova
Juan Gris
Frantisek Kupka
Michel Larionov

Henri Le Fauconnier
Fernand Leger
Andre Lhote
Jacques Lipchitz
Kasimir Malevich
Louis Marcoussis
Louis Marcoussis
Jean Metzinger
Amedee Ozenfant
Pablo Picasso
Luigi Russolo
Arthur Segal
Gino Severini
Georges Valmier
Jacques Villon

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