Cubism, Artistic Movement, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Analytical Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Color Cubism, Orphism, Robert Delaunay, Avant-garde, Modernism, Fauvism
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Summary of Cubism, a revolutionary 20th-century art movement that emerged in France, characterized by analytical and synthetic styles, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
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[...] Regarding the second style, in synthetic cubism, from around 1912, Picasso, Braque, and, following them, Juan Gris modified their way of conceiving art. The decomposed object in individual geometric figures is now assembled. During this phase, the cubists used objects that did not go together, but left them to blend into each other. Synthetic cubism is thus associated with the birth of the 'collage'. Another form of cubism is color cubism or orphism, represented mainly by the artist Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)3 (Del-Marle, 2022). In 1914, with the start of World War the artistic movement begins to dissolve (Cabanne, 2000). [...]
[...] In their works, they instead focused on reducing an object to geometric figures such as the cube, the cone, the sphere, or the pyramid. The cubist artistic movement thus brought the principle of artistic abstraction to a new height, through a mathematical analysis of the object and its decomposition into geometric forms. Cubism, however, had no theory or proper manifesto. Formally, cubism is mainly distinguished in two styles: analytical cubism and synthetic cubism. Regarding the first style, analytical cubism lasted from 1910 to early 1912 and characterizes the first phase of the artistic movement. [...]
