Cubism & Cubists Movement
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque
Following from Fauvism, Cubism became a turning point in modern art. The cubist's influenced by Paul Cezanne and the amateur painter Henri Rousseau followed and depicted nature with the flowing freedom of line and a repetitive order of structure.
Traditionalist painters became confused by Cubism, the cubist's ideals were not to translate objects naturally but to emotionally manipulate the subject matter so, compiled elements are changed for aesthetic reasons rather than reality.
Cubism broke the consistence of modern art by, producing something outrageously different. The freedom which was created meant that new and expressed movements could be taken seriously.
The development of cubism came about at the start of the twentieth century. Cubism was perhaps a new way of seeing the world but above all it was a new way of seeing it and interpreting and describing it in two dimensions. Their style of work had never been seen before, distorted portraits and landscapes opened the door for new styles of art. The Cubist's looked at their subject's from multiple view points making a distorted painting, but with this distortion their, work wasn't total abstract.
The whole Cubist movement started in 1907 and for the first ten years went through many phases. Following the death of Paul Cezanne in 1906, Picasso and Braque started a retrospective of Cezanne's work. Still life's of fruit, glasses and prosaic coffeepots. These early still life's are painted using the same elements as Cezanne's later work. The paintings are broken up into volumes, cones, cylinders and spheres. The use of geometric shapes and the range of colour are also very close to that of Cezanne. Picasso and Braque were both influenced by the late landscapes by Cezanne and used these as a starting point for Cubism.