Cubism In African Art: Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso And Georges Barque

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In the early 20th century, there was an influential art movement called cubism and predicted in the same century happened primitivism movement especially in Africa art. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso and Georges Barque was the founder of cubism and bring progress to modern art.
Cubism widely used in various kinds of art produced in Paris, especially in paintings. Basically cubism is an art that has standpoint of a person or an object that are combined into one work. It was named cubism because the works of art that have been produced are in the form of cubic, curves, triangle, etc. Cubism is not just a random abstract art, it is an abstract art formed from variety of geometric shapes. There are two style of cubism based on periods that have very different characteristics. The two styles of cubism use different techniques, but the concept remain same. The initial phase called analytical cubism, estimated to occur from year 1909 – 1912. Analytical cubism had a unique technique that requires close examination and analysis of the subject to apply it in geometrical forms, lines, and angles. The style resembles shards of glass and lines, which form the subject that could be a person, an object or landscape. The colours that used …show more content…

Georges Braque born in 13 May 1882 and he was an artist who grew up in France. He learned about artistic painting at École des Beaux-Arts and received many awards for his works. In 1912, he was experimenting more on cubism with Pablo Picasso and he invented papier collé technique. Georges Braque created the first artwork that uses paper collé technique, the painting called Fruit Dish and Glass. Previously he was trained as house painter and decorator, his father and grandfather passed down that skill and therefore Georges Braque aware that spatial relationships in his works damaged by the use of paper that looks realistic but

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