cubism
Before the twentieth century, art was recognized as an imitation of nature. Paintings and
portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if seen
through a window. Artists were painting in a flamboyant style. French postimpressionist
Paul Cézannes flattened still lives, and African sculptures gained in popularity in Western
Europe when artists went looking for a new way of showing their ideas and expressing
their views. In 1907 Pablo Picasso created …
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…nice to be a masterpiece”(Hoving, 1999). It also set the stage for
other artists to test new styles that would have been considered too unorthodox before.
Cubism truly embodied the phrase, “art is in the eye of the beholder.”
Bibliography
Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking.
Los Angelas: University of California Press, 1984.
Hoving, Thomas. Art for Dummies.
Foster City California: IDG Books Worldwide, 1999.
Miki, Tamon. What is Cubism? The National Museum of Modern Art.
www.cubistic.com.
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