What Was The Cubist Period Remembered For?
Cubism was a 20th Century movement which concentrated on the analysis of objects and subjects. Cubist works see the subject broken down into sections, often seemingly disjointed, and displayed two-dimensionally on a canvas. The intention was to expand what the movement’s principal architects, Braque and Picasso, saw as the limiting factors of the medium of paint. They saw that, as it was, painting could not hope to truly represent three-dimensional objects. Rather, it only represented the artist’s two-dimensional view of those objects. In order to rectify this, Cubist artists ‘analysed’ the subjects of their artworks, reducing them to small ‘cubes’. Each of these cubes combined to create the final, complete vision of the object, as if it were being viewed from all sides and all directions at once. The Cubist movement later progressed from its analytic stage to a ‘synthetic’ stage. Rather than breaking down individual objects, this entailed the combining of many different objects in ord
