... and fragmentation of images. Related movements also contributed - the orphism or synchronism of Sonia Delaunay and others brought vivid color to the geometric shapes of cubism; futurism celebrated speed, the machine, and the city; and constructivism experimented with new materials and mandated art to facilitate social progress." All of these styles are with out a ... only used art from around the world but from the home front as well. A key art design that was very influential was American Indian art because it was characteristic of geometric stylization and sophisticated patterns. The...

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... in the work of Pablo Picasso in the movement he and Georges Braque started called Cubism from around 1908 to 1917. Cubist paintings create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify form, spatial planes that are broken into fragments, and forms that overlap and penetrate one another. . Art historians generally consider cubism to have been the most ... ...

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