Analytic Cubism

Cubist Movement

There are many artists out there with their many styles of work, although Picasso was no different, because he is also identified with a certain art style also. Picasso is different because he dared to be different, he introduced a new artistic style that became a revolutionary movement in art and was marked a true genius of the 20th century. Picasso couldn’t have made this movement without his friend Braque who studied under Cezanne. During this time, Picasso and Braque with another fellow artist Joan Miro started the Cubist movement. Cubism is a reproduction of images, seen from many different angles. Cubism was broken into two different phases, Analytic Cubism, which lasted from 1910-1912, and Synthetic Cubism 1912-1914. Cubism started during the time of war, which had a huge impact on the Cubist movement.

Picasso and Braque met through mutual friend, a poet a critic Guillaume Apollinaire. Picasso’s painting of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1906-1907) has been called “the first painting of the 20th century”. Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon painting was inspired by African sculpture and the later paintings of Paul Cezanne, this signaled the new style of Cubism. When Braque and Picasso first met, Braque had called Picasso’s d’Avignon painting, bold and made people want to drink gasoline and spit fire. Braque then went on to paint Large Nude (1908), which had a lesser take of geometric shapes than Picasso’s painting. Despite their differences, Picasso and Braque became good friends and started an artistic movement known as “Cubism.”

Analytic Cubism was the first phase of Cubism that developed. It began in 1909-1910 and lasted till the middle of 1912. Analytic Cubism is a form of art that was developed by Picasso and Braque; it is a form of fragmented compositional art that included multiple perspective, neutral organic colors, and has some sort of human figures in it. This form of Cubism was used in western art. Western art use to depict natural and real life objects for many centuries but initially stopped and started incorporating more Analytical Cubism. Some of the Analytic Cubism paintings that Picasso drew where Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, 1910, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, and Ma Jolie, 1911.

Throughout the years, Picasso and Braque made many changes in their arts and initially ended their Analytic Cubism phase in the middle of 1912. That’s when they started their Synthetic Cubism. Synthetic Cubism is more decorative and simpler to interpret by using more color and introducing a wide range of textures and materials into painting. Some of the famous paintings that depicted Synthetic Cubism by Picasso were, The Bowl of Fruit, 1912, Three Musicians, 1921, and The Dream, 1932. One of the popular paintings that made Synthetic Cubism popular and considered one of the major paintings of the