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THE FIRST PHASE OF CUBI SM Cubist art is considered to be an artistic movement that was present between
Cubism had as its ideological basis the notion that an image is always observed
1907 and 1914. Cubism is considered a pioneering avant-garde movement
from di erent points of view, as it is three-dimensional. This led the artists who
because it was responsible for breaking with perspective, the last Renaissance
developed this movement to seek new forms of pictorial representation, among
principle that was still in force at the beginning of the century. Cubism was
which the break with the real image was made present through the formation of
centred on the city of Paris, and the leaders and masters of the movement were
cubes and other geometric forms. The presence of numerous and certainly
the Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris and the Frenchmen Georges Braque
chaotic geometric
and Fernand Léger, but the artist Cézanne had already blazed the trail, who,
represent the very complexity of everyday life.
influenced by Impressionism, reacted against it, rejecting print in favour of a deeper understanding of reality. Cézanne believed that nature is not drawn, but manifests itself through colour, his painting not being drawn, but a painting of volumes, of forms, relating them to each other once they have been created. This is where the problem of planes arose, which led him to look at objects from various points of view. It originated in France and was made famous by the artists belonging to this style, among whom we can highlight Pablo Picasso. This style of art was an essential kind of art as it gave rise to the other avant-gardes in Europe in the 20th century. Therefore, it is the nal break that art had with traditional painting.
gures gave the image a unique complexity that aimed to
The concept of Cubism was created by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, the same man who baptised the Fauves. This term originated from a critique he made of an artistic work which he called "cubes", and since then the concept of cubism was born. Cubist art would not have been possible without the advent of photography, which, by representing visual reality more accurately than painting, freed the la er from the obligation to represent things as they appear before our eyes and forced artists to seek a meaning other than the mere transcription of the external appearance of things in two dimensions.
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