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    Cubism was an influential early 20th century art movement founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907. They were inspired by African sculpture and painters like Cézanne and Seurat. Cubist works break up subjects into geometric forms like cylinders and spheres and depict objects from multiple viewpoints at once. There were two phases - Analytic Cubism from 1907 to 1912 which reduced forms to basic geometric parts, and Synthetic Cubism from 1912 to 1919 where Picasso and Braque pioneered collage by combining different materials and objects within paintings.

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    Cubism was an influential early 20th century art movement founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907. They were inspired by African sculpture and painters like Cézanne and Seurat. Cubist works break up subjects into geometric forms like cylinders and spheres and depict objects from multiple viewpoints at once. There were two phases - Analytic Cubism from 1907 to 1912 which reduced forms to basic geometric parts, and Synthetic Cubism from 1912 to 1919 where Picasso and Braque pioneered collage by combining different materials and objects within paintings.

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    Cubism was an influential early 20th century art movement founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907. They were inspired by African sculpture and painters like Cézanne and Seurat. Cubist works break up subjects into geometric forms like cylinders and spheres and depict objects from multiple viewpoints at once. There were two phases - Analytic Cubism from 1907 to 1912 which reduced forms to basic geometric parts, and Synthetic Cubism from 1912 to 1919 where Picasso and Braque pioneered collage by combining different materials and objects within paintings.

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    Cubism was an influential early 20th century art movement founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907. They were inspired by African sculpture and painters like Cézanne and Seurat. Cubist works break up subjects into geometric forms like cylinders and spheres and depict objects from multiple viewpoints at once. There were two phases - Analytic Cubism from 1907 to 1912 which reduced forms to basic geometric parts, and Synthetic Cubism from 1912 to 1919 where Picasso and Braque pioneered collage by combining different materials and objects within paintings.

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    Cubism
    One of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century (1907-1920s), Cubism
    was begun by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907. They were greatly inspired by
    African sculpture and by two painters - Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat.

    In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted
    form. Picasso and Braque initiated the movement when they followed the advice of Paul
    Cézanne, who in 1904 said artists should treat nature "in terms of the cylinder, the sphere
    and the cone."
    The style essentially fragments three-dimensional forms into flat areas of pattern and
    color, overlapping and intertwining them so that shapes and parts of the human anatomy
    are seen from the front and back at the same time (simultaneity). The style was created by
    Picasso in tandem with his great friend Georges Braque, and at times, the works were so
    alike it was hard for each artist quickly to identify their own.

    Georges Braque - Georges Braque developed his painting skills while working
    for his father, a house decorator. Braque's large compositions incorporated the Cubist
    aim of representing the world as seen from a number of different viewpoints. He wanted
    to convey a feeling of being able to move around within the painting. The still life subject
    remained his chief preoccupation from 1927 to 1955.

    Pablo Picasso - A Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized
    figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges
    Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or
    designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or
    ceramics.
    Mr. Vallone’s Art Appreciation FDR High School

    Analytic Cubism - The first phase of Cubism, from about 1907 to 1912. Analytic
    cubists reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile
    these essentially three-dimensional parts with the two-dimensional picture plane. Color
    was greatly subdued, and paintings were nearly monochromatic.

    Synthetic Cubism - Developed by Picasso, Braque and others, between 1912


    and 1919. It was seen as the first time that collage had been made as a fine art work.
    Whereas analytic cubism was an analyzation of the subjects (pulling them apart into
    planes), synthetic is more of a pushing several objects together. Collage was used with
    painting and drawing to compose abstract images of interchangeable elements with the
    concept of reconfigured space.

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