Cubism

Pablo Picasso and Georges Barques developed a truly revolutionary style of modern art called cubism. In 20^th Century, there was the beginning of the style of “Abstract”. Since the Renaissance, perspective had been the rule. During the period 1870-1910, inventions such as photography, cinematography, sound-recording, the telephone, the motor-car and the airplane led to the beginning of a new age. Modernity had replaced traditional art (like photography replaced painting as the tool for documenting the age and artists illustrating cars, planes and images of the new technologies). Artists wanted a new way of seeing, so cubism became the new way of seeing, and this was the first abstract style of modern art. In 1907 Picasso and Barque had ideas about cubism: in Paris, they shared a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cezanne.

 

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Cubism - the first abstract style of modern art. 2013. Cubism - the first abstract style of modern art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm. [Accessed 04 April 2013].