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CUBISM By Emily Hammond Cubism was originally a movement in modern art, especially in painting. Cubism started in France and played an extremely important role in modern art. Before the twentieth century, art was recognised as an imitation of nature. Paintings and portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if seen through a window. Artists were painting in a flamboyant style, but French postimpressionist Paul Cézanne, flattened still life images. In 1906 Cézanne held an exhibition of his paintings in Paris which Picasso visited, After seeing Cézannes work he began experimenting with Cézannes ideas. The actual movement of cubism was stared by Picasso and Braque, aimed at establishing this new plastic order which was completely different to the one that existed up to that time, it brought a great revolution in visual representation. It had a wide spread, tremendous influence on art following it but it...

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