Cubism
Also in some of my paintings I have some inspiration in the Cubist movement by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. This was the first style of abstract art, which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to the world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalize the tired traditions of Western art, who believed has run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907/08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who aimed to bring different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted
What inspired cubist style?
Cubism was partly influenced by the late work of Paul Cézanne in which he can be seen to be painting things from slightly different points of view. Pablo Picasso was also inspired by African tribal masks which are highly stylised, or non-naturalistic, but nevertheless present a vivid human image. ‘A head’, said Picasso, ‘is a matter of eyes, nose, mouth, which can be distributed in any way you like’.
http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cubism
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm
https://www.pinterest.com/kerry1402/cubism/
