The 'Revolutionary Discoveries' of Cubism

The Cubist movement inspired by the Post-impressionist painter Paul Cezzane (1839-1906) was officially introduced by the works of the French Fauvist painter Georges Braque (1882-1963) and Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the years of 1907-09. The movement rejected the painterly conventions that existed in Renaissance art. The unique analysis of art that the Cubists explored changed the attitudes of reality in art and brought about revolutionary discoveries in visual representation. These discoveries were represented in …

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