Cubism

Cubism is a non-objective style of painting originally developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906 in France. "Pre-cubist" period converted represented forms into geometrical shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, and cone). Later between 1909 and 1911 Analitical Cubism was developed. This style of art allowed artists to transpose three-dimensional subjects into flat images on the sursface of the canvas. In 1912 Synthetic Cubism began. The attention in this style of painting was on the construction rather than the analysis of the represented object. In other words, creation instead of recreation. Artists lost their depth and became more abstract. Cubism opened the doors to new textures and materials. Cubism lasted until the 1920's. http://tars.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/cubism.html