
Analytical Cubism is the first type of cubism. Cubism was first started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It is called Cubism because the items represented in the artworks look like they are made out of cubes and other geometrical shapes. Its methodsĬubism is a style of art which aims to show all of the possible viewpoints of a person or an object all at once. Douglas Cooper's emphasis on the work of Braque, Picasso, Gris (from 1911) and Léger (to a lesser extent) was an intentional value judgement. Finally "Late Cubism" (from 1914 to 1921) was the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement. In the second phase, "High Cubism", (from 1909 to 1914), Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent after 1911. There was "Early Cubism", (from 1906 to 1908) when the movement was initially developed by Picasso and Braque. It included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, but no works by Picasso and Braque were exhibited.Īccording to one art historian, there were three phases of Cubism. The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in the spring of 1911.

Georges Braque's 1908 Houses at L’Estaque (and related works) prompted the critic Louis Vauxcelles to refer to "bizarreries cubiques" (cubic oddities). Pablo Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was an early Cubist work. It was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.


It began in France about 1907, and flourished from 1910 through the 1920s. Cubism was one of the most significant art movements of the 20th century.
