Synthetic cubism

In his artistic researches, Cézanne had been intent to paw at the boundary between his personal visual sensations and the “Nature” (or “the real world,” as we might now say) that he could walk through and handle and inhabit. I can go beyond that, Braque seems to claim. I can take a wrench to reality. Look, my brush lays hold on the angled planes of the object world, its facets; look, it locates the edges on which Nature must turn; see me unfasten the presented scene, open it up, seize it by…

Wikipedia has this extensive entry dealing with Cubism. Early on, it states: "Historians have divided the history of Cubism into phases. In one scheme, the first phase of Cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, a phrase coined by Juan Gris a posteriori, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1910 and 1912 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity. English art…

Juan Gris (1887-1973), Bouteilles et couteau (Flessen en mes), 1912 Bottles and knife, oil on canvas

Femme au Compotier

If you are into painting or even the visual arts in any way, then you are sure to know a bit about cubism. Even if you do not know much about cubism, you

Vintage papers, sheet music covers, book covers pasted onto lined board. Gift to Dorothy Cuming December 2012

Cubism Collage

“Violin and Glass, 1918 https://t.co/ASJQ8Er4p5 #wikiart #juangris”

If you have seen and admired the work of Pablo Picasso, you must at least have an inkling as to what Cubism means. As the name suggests, cubism is the style

A look at Picasso's Guitars, 1912-1914, an exhibition in 2011 of 85 pieces from 35 collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.