Cubism is said to be the first abstract modern art
style and the most influential.
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Important Artists who created Cubism:
Pablo Picasso & George Braque
Analytical Cubism: Tried to incorporate multiple views in one painting with forms broken into geometric shapes (cubes) and flat planes with open edges that overlapped each other.
Analytic Cubist Painting by Georges Braque
Synthetic Cubism: incorporated collaged paper, textures
Synthetic Cubist Painting by Georges Braque
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Guernica is one of Pablo Picasso‘s most famous works, remains one of the most poignant and symbolic anti-war paintings in history.
Leading figurehead of the Cubist movement, the artist created the oil painting to denounce the brutality of the Guernica bombing of April 26, 1937, carried out by Nazi German and Fascist Italian aircrafts at the request of Spanish nationalists.
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