It allowed the artist to portray the subject in greater context and for a truer representation of its nature than merely a literal depiction.
Instead of the viewer moving around the subject, the painting did it for them. But Cubism aimed to convey the personal nature of experience, in all its complexity and incongruity, marking a transition from reflection to expression, from showing the world to commenting on it.īy reducing complex organic forms like the human figure to simple symmetrical shapes and by abandoning the one-point perspective in favor of multiple viewpoints shown simultaneously, Cubism was able to depict different aspects of a subject, literal and figurative, and from different points in space and time. Since the Renaissance and through the mid-19th century, visual art in the Western tradition aspired to capture the world objectively and realistically. It was meant to be derogatory art critics, as well as Henri Matisse himself, scoffed at the “painting made of small cubes.”īut it was groundbreaking (today we’d call it “disruptive”), and it changed art forever. Picasso pioneered Cubism along with painter Georges Braque, the term coming from its depiction of figures and places in geometric forms. Over the course of his career, which lasted until age 91, he created over 20,000 pieces of art in a wide range of media and styles, including paintings, sculptures, collages, ceramics and even theater sets and costumes. By age 23 he moved to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, where he found success fairly quickly. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881. Picasso was a fan of, and influenced by, The Katzenjammer Kids.
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