Cubism
An early 20th-century school of painting and sculpture
in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic
detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements
largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones.
Cubism,
highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created
principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between
1907 and 1914. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of
the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective,
foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories
of art as the imitation of nature. Cubist painters were not bound to copying
form, texture, colour, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in
paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were
seen simultaneously.
1908;
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