THEIRISEXPERIENCE: Cubism in Art and Photography

Cubism began as an idea and then it became a style. Based onPaul Cézanne's three main ingredients - geometricity, simultaneity (multiple views) and passage - Cubism tried to describe, in visual terms, the concept of the Fourth Dimension.

'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 - Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Perhaps the most influential art style of its time, cubism was very popular in the early 20th century. The style’s most significant artists were the Frenchman Georges Braque and the Spaniard Pablo Picasso.

Contemporary cubism Art - Thomas C. Fredo

Cubism is a kind of Realism. It is a conceptual approach to realism in art, which aims to depict the world as it is and not as it seems. This was the "idea." For example, pick up any ordinary cup. Chances are the mouth of the cup is round. Close your eyes and imagine the cup. The mouth is round. It is always round - whether you are looking at the cup or remembering the cup.

Ben Garrison

To depict the mouth as an oval is a falsehood, a mere device to create an optical illusion. The mouth of a glass is not an oval; it is a circle. This circular form is its truth, its reality. The representation of a cup as a circle attached to the outline of its profile view communicates its concrete reality. In this respect, Cubism can be considered realism, in a conceptual, rather than perceptional way.