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    Renaissance era(5). The new art form of Cubism began to take shape in 1906 and challenged the traditional art form. The name cubism derived from Louis Vauxcelles comments during an art exhibition as he described a painted by Georges Braque (Green). Cubism took typical one vantage point of art and transformed it into multiple viewpoints with geometric shapes creating abstract art. The eye could scan the art from multiple angles freely in time and space(7). Cubism is important to our society

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    When Cubism reached its glorious grasp around 1907–1914, the World was in a wild place. With the Ottoman Empire losing power; European influences were becoming avaricious for more, eventually leading to the start of World War I. On the other side of the world we had America rising as a global supremacy, creating its way to a worldly control. Because of these chaotic matters, society was shifting towards a new direction. The Art World with its artists and writers also responded to this conversion

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    Taylor Campbell Ms. Sauter World History/Block E March 15, 2015 Picasso the Savior Art is an essential part of society, whether it be in the 1800s or our century we live in today. It is a great way to express ourselves in ways that words cannot, and is commonly known as an important part in stress relief. Art helps show the emotions of the artists and how the world around them was represented on the canvases. One of the most famous painters the world has gotten the privilege to witness is Pablo

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    new incredibly unconventional styles. Major art forms such as cubism, futurism, fauvism, non-objective, and the international style were born. Artists became more creative and inspired by the new age. All three styles rejected the traditional ways of nineteenth century art and entered the new century with unconventional and revolutionary techniques and pieces that have changed the way artists think and create still to this day. Cubism is a style of modern art that was influenced originally by Pablo

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    symbolism that had dominated the 19th-entury earlier. Instead, Artists around the world started to incorporate the emerging geometrics of technology into their art. Cubism, Futurism, Fauvism, Nonobjective art, and the International Style are all examples of art forms and styles that adapted the abstract geometrics that technology offered. Cubism is an art form movement that helped shape early 20th century art and the Modernist

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    to Paris he and his friend Georges Braque created a new style of painting called cubism. When they created cubism not a lot of people liked that style of painting and Picasso got lots of hostile criticism, Picasso liked what he was doing so kept doing it. After a while when Picasso kept doing cubism he visited Africa, he saw their style of painting and adopted their ways using both African style of painting sand cubism. After a few successful paintings Picasso was widely respected as a painter for

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    career like that, Pablo Picasso. From a young age, Picasso became a child prodigy and displayed the characteristics of an artist. He is known for his groundbreaking influential works that transformed the twentieth century, his creation of art forms and Cubism that would forever stay after his passing, and his ability to turn anything into art (Pablo Picasso Biography Painter). Growing up, he was taught how to draw by his father, who was an artist. In his early years, he attended school, and later dropped

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    Goncharova constantly supported Larionov's artistic and aesthetic endeavors. Their names are always mentioned together in the history of Russian art. Like Larionov, Natalia Goncharova had an interest in cubism and futurism, and, in 1906, she was carried away by primitivism (Rogers, para. 1). Goncharova's neo-primitivism is a great contribution to the art of the ealy 20th century. As it was mentioned before, Natalia drew her inspiration from the Russian

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    Grace Ng December 5, 2017 ARTD: Modern Art Professor Simon The Architect's Table Pablo Picasso is one of the most recognizable names in art; as he is well known for specializing in Cubism. During his career he produced many works of drawing, painting and sculpturing. But what made him famous were his Cubist paintings, the most controversial art movement in his life. Some of the exceptionally well known Cubist art by Picasso were, for example, the Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Girl with Mandolin

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    inspired by the cubism movement? “Young Man in a Grey Sweater” can’t be defined as a pure analytical cubism. Though Rivera uses typical palette of this kind of cubism, the elements are not translucent and intricate enough, there are some texture and ‘foreign’ colorful patterns. But it can’t be an example of synthetic cubism either, not enough construction, no perspective, image is still flat. Thus, “Young Man in a Grey Sweater” is located somewhere in the middle of two types of cubism. Undefined, it

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