But by then Cubism had already sparked a global aesthetic revolution, inspiring the later work of everyone from Marcel Duchamp and Piet Mondrian, to Georgia O’Keefe and Jackson Pollock. Its ideas and techniques can be found in myriad other art movements, including Dadaism, Surrealism, Assemblage and Pop Art.

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

: a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories that art should imitate nature.

What are the characteristics of Cubism?

• Analytical Cubism – The first stage of the Cubism movement was called Analytical Cubism.
• Synthetic Cubism – The second stage of Cubism introduced the idea of adding in other materials in a collage.

Analytical Cubism: Colour schemes were simplified, tending to be nearly monochromatic (hues of tan, brown, gray, cream, green, or blue preferred) in order not to distract the viewer from the artist’s primary interest–the structure of form itself.

Pablo Picasso

Cubism is a style of art which aims to show all of the possible viewpoints of a person or an object all at once. It is called Cubism because the items represented in the artworks look like they are made out of cubes and other geometrical shapes. Cubism was first started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.