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Cubism is a movement that ran for about 7 years from 1907-1914. Unlike previous European styles which used a single view point Cubists uses multiple viewpoints this allows the eyes to depict several different aspects of an object in the same picture, which gave the paintings a sense of depth and allowed a 2 dimensional picture look 3 dimensional and appeared as if the painting was extending beyond the canvas. Cubism was first thought to be started by …

…movement progressed it was also used by sculptures, architects and the applied arts. The first piece of cubists' architecture was a department store in Prague named "the black Madonna" it was designed by Joseph Gocar. On the first floor they're was a café with a cubists interior and cubists light fixtures. The building remained opened from 1911 to the mid 1920's until it was re-opened in 1994 as part of the Czech cubism museum.