There were many things that influenced the start of Cubism in the 1900’s. Many artists wanted to rebel in order to achieve artistic freedom. They did so by taking new paths away from the realism and literary art of the academic influence. New ideas were wanted instead of relearning classical paintings from the Renaissance period. They got old because it was the same methods of painting with slight variations. Paul Cézanne broke away from the Impressionists in order to paint a new form. He wanted to use the entire picture’s space in a whole new way. Basically, he painted in a way that made the canvas surface seem raised, which produced a different effect. He did this by using geometrical shapes- the cone, cylinder, cube, and others- as building blocks for the objects he painted. It is easier to synthesize the three hundred and fifty years separating Impr

Cubism wasn’t accepted into art society immediately. At first, the term “Cubism” was used in a spirit of hostility and rejection. As H. W. Jansen points out in History of Art, in this painting “Picasso used primitive art as a battering ram against the classical conception of beauty” (MacDonald 46). His new view of the human body was so disturbing that one critic said of the canvas, “It resembles a field of broken glass” (MacDonald 46). The only person who believed in it was a young German-born art dealer named Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. By 1910 Picasso’s name was known internationally; he had achieved a degree of recognition almost unheard of for an artist not yet thirty years old.

not made, and it retains, in a measure, its strangeness.

displaced object has entered a universe for which it is

a bottle, that gives us something to think about in

essionism from the High Renaissance than it is to bridge the fifty years that lie between Impressionism and Cubism (Golding xiii).

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