Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Cubism was born between 1907 and 1908. It may be the most radical revolution since the perspective of the Quattrocento, the Italian 15th century. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque broke the object into geometric fragments.
The painting as a window onto the world was finished. The painter no longer copied nature; he rebuilt it. That deconstruction opened the way to abstract art.
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- 2Cézanne and the shock of the masks
- 3Analytic Cubism: dissecting the object
- 4Synthetic Cubism and collage
- 5A legacy that spills past painting
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary12 terms explained in a tap.
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