Was Cubism influential?
Cubism by Sabine Rewald October 2004 Notes: The style of Cubism, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque described on The Met website as "cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century." was a style of art created by geometric forms. From this article I have discovered that early cubism, have been connected to Primitivism and non-Western sources. The origin term Cubism was coined by a French Art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, after seeing the landscapes of Braque in 1908. The cubist artists chose to reject the concept of art having to copy nature or that all artists should use the same techniques but instead emphasis two-dimensionality of a canvas, they did this by reducing and fracturing objects into geometrical forms realigning them "within a shallow, relieflike space." Analytic Cubism (1910-12) in Picasso and Braque's work mainly was reduced to overlapping planes and facets using browns, greys or blacks giving it a ...