The root of the Cubist movement is believed to have arisen from the distinct characteristic features of Paul Cézanne’s. Unlike the traditional portraits and landscapes, the Cubist art forms were not intended to be natural and realistic but rather as a piece fragmented from various vantage points into a complete one.
Cubist art works can immediately be recognized as they are almost flat and have a two-dimensional outlook. Other than Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso the other artists who were the significant advocators of the Cubist movement were Sir Jacob Epstein, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay and Jean Metzinger. Late Cubism – This is the final phase of Cubism ranging between 19 where Cubism was largely accepted as a new avant-garde movement. This is one of the major characteristics which distinguish the Cubist movement from others.Ĭubism is also said to have 3 distinct phases as described by Douglas Cooper, an English art historian. In the work of the Cubist artists, the object and background planes mutually penetrate each other by creating a thin ambiguous space. Cubism enabled the artists to depict their subjects in multiple time lapses and also from several perspectives unlike the traditional art forms which forced the artists to fix their perspective in a single space and time. The surfaces of their art forms intersected apparently at random angles which removed any rational sense of depth. Thus, the subjects were represented in a far greater context than earlier as space and form was broken down into many geometrical shapes. Several different viewpoints were considered simultaneously in this analytical system of art form for fragmenting and redefining various three-dimensional art subjects. Instead the artists broke up the objects then analyzed and again reassembled them presenting us with an abstract art form. Cubist artworks and artists broke away from the centuries old tradition and completely rejected the earlier ideas which said that the art forms should portray only a particular viewpoint. In the beginning of the 20 th century a number of contemporary art movements were emerging all over France of which Fauvism, which is the predecessor of Cubism, was of significance. (Calo & Stokstad, 336-337)Ĭubism did not develop suddenly and out of nothing. Later, the works even started to appear similar to collages rather than mere paintings.
In this phase the works that were featured had bright colors and were made of simpler forms. With the evolution of the Cubist movement graphic elements, color and texture were slowly being added to the art forms. This movement remained important from 1913 till about 1920 after which the Surrealist Movement came into being. Synthetic Cubism – This is the 2 nd phase and is named so since the artists used synthetic material in their art forms.
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