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Cubist artworks actually are still loved by many art-lovers, personally, I have some oil painting reproductions of Picasso paintings hanging in my office.

Cubism is the most mentioned artistic movements of the 20^th century. Many people know the name of cubism, however, when ask what is the cubism, what it stands for and who is main contributors to the movement. I guess most of people can not answer. As such, identifying what the impact of the movement is and where we see this impact in our lives today is not known and that is a shame, as this helps us see the world in a clearer, more complete context.

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin are the artist who provided some of the original inspiration for the Cubist movement. Paintings like Cezanne’s Quarry Bibmus (1898-1900), in which Cezanne painted individual small surface areas as multifaceted, thus providing multiple points of view on a single object. Cezanne at this time also had a focus on simplification. Of taking shapes and turning them into more basic shapes like cylinders and rectangles. Both of these tendencies had an enormous influence on Picasso.

The main period for Cubism was 1907-1919. In the span of this period, Cubism moved through two main periods, Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism. This first period focused more on reducing forms to geometrical shapes and analyzing them. Color was less emphasized, as the focus was on shape. The second period focused more on putting numerous objects together and has them interact, with different objects, textures, colors and shapes. Collages were also introduced in this period, and have stayed important in the world of art ever since. However, after 1919, Cubism as a major artistic movement of the time lost ground as surrealism gained popularity.

Far from being an art movement confined to the annals of art history, Cubism and its legacy continue to inform the work of many contemporary artists. Not only is cubist imagery regularly used commercially but significant numbers of contemporary artists continue to draw upon it both stylistically and perhaps more importantly, theoretically. The latter contains the clue as to the reason for cubism’s enduring fascination for artists. As an essentially representational school of painting, having to come to grips with the rising importance of photography as an increasingly viable method of image making, cubism attempts to take representational imagery beyond the mechanically photographic, and to move beyond the bounds of traditional single point perspective perceived as though by a totally immobile viewer. The questions and theories which arose during the initial appearance of cubism in the early 20th century are, for many representational artists, as current today as when first proposed.

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