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reality shattered, reassembled, and handed back to you from six angles at once.
means An early-20th-century art movement, pioneered by Braque and Picasso, that broke objects into geometric facets and showed multiple viewpoints simultaneously on a flat surface.
from From French cubisme, built on cube (via Latin cubus, from Greek kybos, 'a die or six-sided block'). The name began as a jab: a critic, reacting to Braque's angular landscapes, reportedly sneered about reducing everything to 'little cubes.' The insult stuck, the painters embraced it, and the mockery became a manifesto.
- founders
- Picasso and Braque, painting like inseparable rope climbers
- the name
- a critic's insult about 'little cubes'
- flatness
- abolished depth, then showed all sides anyway
- influence
- African masks reshaped Picasso's entire eye
- timeline
- changed Western art in roughly seven years
les demoiselles d'avignon — picasso's 1907 painting that pioneered cubism with fragmented female figures and multiple viewpoints
girl with a mandolin — picasso's 1910 analytical cubist work showing a figure broken into geometric planes
braque's houses at l'estaque — georges braque's 1908 landscapes that developed cubism alongside picasso in southern france