Facts about Cubism
A prime example of cubism in music was given by composer Igor Stravinsky in his Piano-Rag-Music, for solo piano.
In 1913 the United States was exposed to Cubism and modern European art when Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints at the famous Armory Show in New York City.
Cubism was a particularly varied art movement in its political affiliations, with some sections being broadly anarchist or leftist, while others were strongly aligned with nationalist sentiment.
After meeting in 1907, they began working on the development of Cubism in 1908, and worked closely together until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Cubism also was adapted into literature, especially poetry, by the likes of Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude Stein, and Pierre Reverdy.
The second phase of cubism, beginning in 1912, is called "Synthetic Cubism."
Cubism was a twentieth century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature.
The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another to create the ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism.
French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first used the term "cubism," or "bizarre cubiques," in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque.
Cubism was taken up by many artists in Montparnasse and promoted by art dealer Henry Kahnweiler, becoming popular so quickly that by 1910 critics were referring to a "cubist school" of artists.
Cubism was a particularly varied art movement in its political affiliations, with some sections being broadly anarchist or leftist, while others were strongly aligned with nationalist sentiment.
Others were close to Synthetic Cubism, especially in the case of Guillaume Apollinaire, who fused poetry and drawing in caligrammes; created collages involving postcards, letters and the like.