Cubism challenged the then-prevalent belief that art should copy nature or that artists should adopt traditional techniques of perception and depiction. Instead, it emphasised expressing ...

Our Cubism carries that lyricism ... The women are pressed together, their bodies fragmented, their surroundings an oppressive jumble of shapes and shadows. “Unlike Picasso’s depiction, which invites ...

in color and shape. Unlike the specific and quirky systems for depicting space and time in Cubism or Futurism, this possibility is something artists now take for granted—it’s so basic that it ...

He co-created the style of Cubism with Georges Braque. When we think of modern art, we often think of Picasso because of his portraits, in which he demonstrated his unique take on shapes and lines.

Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named ... the harmony and balance between colors and shapes. The hues selected by the artists were ...

As a Post-Impressionist painter, Cézanne began to represent nature with geometric shapes. For instance, a tree was painted as a combination of cylinders and an apple was a sphere. This mode of making ...

Cubism fills museums all over the world ... With a moment of hesitation, a guest responds: "How color forms shape and depth." Kinney adds: "Early cubists didn't use color much, but both George ...

Cubism altered conventional measures of shape and mass. It transformed paintings from a figurative exercise depicting scenes and subjects with realism, to a mosaic-like explosion of collages ...

She remarks, "Cubism originated with El Greco ... on traditional lines to define form and depth, El Greco arranged shapes in abstract folds. Interestingly, these "cruel smudges" also find their ...

By reducing complex organic forms like the human figure to simple symmetrical shapes and by abandoning the one-point perspective in favor of multiple viewpoints shown simultaneously, Cubism was ...