... artists should treat nature "in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone." They were also inspired by African sculpture. There were 3 phases of Cubism, Facet Cubism, Analytical Cubism and Synthetic cubism. Facet Cubism was a forerunner to analytical cubism and the first phase, the paintings, painted in the style contained no illusion of depth and used simple geometric shapes. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( ... 1907) The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso is an example of facet cubism; it's a brothel scene showing women with faceted and angular bodies. T...

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There are a ton of different kinds of art. One of them is cubism. Cubism is breaking up the picture and reassembling it in an abstracted form. Cubism was started by the great artist Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism had three phases of development. The first was facet cubism, then analytic cubism, and lastly synthetic cubism. By getting rid of the "normal" art they could now use color, shape ... mind, not they eye, would perceive it. In the later phase, the synthetic phase, they used many more bright energetic colors and most artists continued using the college effect. I think cubism i...

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