Description
Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create flattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images. Picasso's celebrated painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to multiple different viewpoints. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: Analytical Cubism, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later Synthetic Cubism, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper. This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, and Robert Delaunay.
Author: Anne Ganteführer-Trier
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 11/03/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9783836505390
ISBN10: 3836505398
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Art | European
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