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cubism
Origin
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broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s.
inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture
The name ‘cubism’ seems to have derived from a comment made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who, on seeing some of Georges Braque’s paintings exhibited in Paris in 1908, described them as reducing everything to ‘geometric outlines, to cubes’.
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technique
By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so suggest their three dimensional form.
Objects are analysed, broken down and reassembled in an abstract form
Types
Analytical Cubism
artworks look more severe and are made up of an interweaving of planes and lines in muted tones of blacks, greys and ochres
Synthetic Cubsim
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also often include collaged real elements such as newspapers. The inclusion of real objects directly in art was the start of one of the most important ideas in modern art.