Cubism
was a 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized
European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in
music and literature. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up,
analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form ? instead of
depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the
subject from a multitude of viewpoints to present the piece in a
greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random
angles presenting no coherent sense of depth. The background and
object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another to create the
ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism.
Leading artists of the movement include
Pablo Picasso,
Paul Cézanne and
Georges Braque.
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