ubism or cubism One of the most influential art movements 19071914 of the twentieth century, Cubism was egun by Pablo Picasso Spanish, 18821973 and Georges Braque French, 18821963 in 1907. They were greatly pired by African sculpture, by painters Paul Cézanne French, 18391906 and Georges Seurat French, 18591891, and by the Fauves. In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form. asso and Braque initiated the movement when they followed the advice of Paul Cézanne, who in 1904 said artists should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone.

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