_Cubism _
By: Jim
The Chain of Art Cubism was one of the strongest art movements in the 20th
century that gave birth to many other movements such as futurism and
suprematism. The Forefathers of this revolutionary way of painting were Pablo
Picasso and George Braque. Although it may have seemed to be abstract and
geometrical to an untrained eye, cubist art do depict real objects. The shapes
are flattened onto canvas so that different sides of each shape can be shown
simultaneously from many angles. This new style gave a 3 dimensional look on
the canvas. The cubist movement gave rise to an extraordinary reassessment of
the interaction between form and space changing the course of western art
foreverThe groundbreaking Demoiselles dAvignon was controversial not only
for the way the women looked but also for the positions of the women. Although
Picasso did not emphasize on detail, he saw that the rational, often
geometric breakdown if the human head and body employed by so many African
artists could provide him with the starting point for his own re-appraisal of
his subjects (Cubism 53). The naked women become inextricably bound up in a
flux of shapes or planes which tip backwards and forwards from the
two-dimensional surface to produce much the same sensation as an elaborate
sculpture& (Cubism 54) Futurism was an art movement, which was influenced by
cubist art. Cubism showed no motion it was futurism that was fascinated with
machinery, transport and communications. In paintings and sculpture, angular
forms and powerful lines were used to convey a sense of activity, this was a
Futurists way of showing motion and speed. One of its innovators was
Umberto Boccioni who said We want represent not the optical or analytical
impression but the physical and total experience (Futurism 101). They now
pinned less faith on the power of new subject matter and strove to complement
their colour divisionism with fragmentation of the cubist sort (Futurism
101) Suprematism was influenced by cubism because of it geometric shapes but
suprematism was not so much a movement in art as it is an attitude&
(Suprematism 138). This non-movement was created by Kasmir Malevichs , His
elemental forms were designed both to break the artists conditioned responses
to his environment and create new realities no less si
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