Can someone please explain to me what cubism is?

Question

Can someone please explain to me in everyday terms?

Answer 1

Cubism developed, at the beginning of the movement (known as analytical cubism) the subject was rendered in a way that different sides of the object could be seen at the same time – as if facing each, rather than follow the laws of perspective and anatomy – several views were represented on one flat two-dimensional view. It is up to the viewer to reconstruct, since the viewer knows the basic geometry of a figure, the parts of the figure and then to understand the reasoning that divided the figure that way.

'A head is a matter of eyes, nose, mouth, which can be distributed in any way you like. The head remains a head.' Pablo Picasso

The second phase of cubism (synthetic cubism), doing away with the analysis, involved the assembling of objects into a flat environment and representing the ways the three dimensional world creates layers of interaction.

This painting by Braque is a good example of this later kind of cubism (while still retaining some of the analysis), there are clear elements visible, the decorative scroll of the mantelpiece, the mouthpiece of the clarinet, the neck and label of the bottle.

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Answer 2

Imagine looking at something through a glass of water.  You can still see it but it is distorted.  Now imagine looking at a something through dozens of different sizes of glasses of water.   The overall image is a whole but each little piece of it is distorted differently.  Cubism.

Answer 3

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

English art historian Douglas Cooper describes three phases of Cubism in his seminal book The Cubist Epoch. According to Cooper there was Early Cubism, (from 1906-1908) during which time the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque; the second phase being called High Cubism, (from 1909 to 1914) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent; and finally Cooper referred to Late Cubism (from 1914 to 1921) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.[1]

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

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Answer 4

well i think its a picture that is modified in the guide lines of cubes but i wonder that too