The Art Of Pablo Picasso And Georges Braque

Cubism was a movement that started in 1908 and ended roughly by the end of the 1920’s and is often synonymous with the works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, two of the most influential and important of the cubist painters, each coming up with their own first cubist painting near 1908. They tended toward the structural and architectural form of Cubism that was hinted at by post-impressionist Paul Cézanne, whose death would provoke an exhibition of work for future cubists and other modern painters to admire and learn from. On the other hand, near 1912-14, cubism took a different turn with the help of Picasso’s papier collé, (Golding 120, Green Synthesis 88, Gopnik 81). The collages produced by papier collé managed to change analytical cubism,

Picasso’s Cubism is most likely the first phase of analytical cubism, which Kahnweiler mentions as the hermetic period between 1909 and 1913 (Golding 118). At this time, Gris became familiarized with Picasso’s work, which was entering its critical stage to begin working on the first Cubism painting Demoiselles d’Avignon, and followed Picasso’s cubism step by step. Now it was assumed that he would follow Picasso and Braque into analytical cubism, which was hinted at by his study and experienced drafting, but instead he took a colder, purer, and intellectual analysis of the inventive possibilities of cubist painting (Golding 97). It is no surprise that Juan Gris would favor a more inventive cubist method when we observe his obsession with patterns, complicated formulas, the conception, and construction of ideas that would become detrimental to synthetic cubism (Gopnik 81, Green Synthesis 87). It also comes as no surprise that he, along with many other cubists of his time, would find work and friendship with the abundance of poets (Golding 13, De Costa