Cubism

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907
The cubism movement was led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In cubism objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form. They began to depict objects from multiple viewpoints instead of one viewpoint. The idea was that natural objects could be reduced and simplified to the forms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone and to move inside as well as outside of an object, below and above it, in and around it.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1907, really set the tone for the cubism movement. Being one of the first of its kind, Demoiselles, was controversial. It caused anger and disagreement among people, including Picasso's close friends. This particular work was influence by African tribal masks, which is obvious in the faces of the five women portrayed. Also, through the faces the different perspective points are evident.

Cubism evolved from paintings and works, like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, to more colorful and abstract forms of cubism. Cubism moved beyond single point perspective and broke humans and objects down to their most simple forms. 

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