An Introduction to Cubism

... 20th Century CUBISM Cubism was an art movement that took place in the twentieth century. Cubism involves the deconstruction of objects, analysis of their parts and planes and finally, their re-construction in an abstracted way. Cubist works often include surfaces intersecting at random angles. A cubist drawing would depict the subject from a multitude of viewpoints; thus the cubist image gives more information or represents greater context than the realist's image. Picasso wrote about cubism, "a manifestation of a vague desire on the part of these of us who participated in it to get back some kind of order... We were trying to move in a direction opposite to Impressionism. That was the reason we abandoned colour, emotion, sensation and everything that has been introduced by the Impressionists, to search again for an architectonic basis in the composition, trying to make an order of it..." The cubists were clearly trying to create something very

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