... three basic stages of Cubism. The first stage, called Cezannesque Cubism, basically consisted of a few features created by piecing many different geometric shapes together to create an image. The next stage, called Analytic Cubism, started around 1910, and consisted of less shapes with less simplicity. Man With a Guitar, 1910, contains a few parallel lines that can look like the frets of a guitar by the ... ...

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... subjects of their paintings were deliberately distorted. Cubism was thought to be the most influential movement in the history of modern art. Typical cubist paintings analyze the subject in basic geometric shapes. The artist also often tried to show the subject from several view points at the same time. Surrealism took place between 1920 and 1950. Surrealism is an invented word meaning ... ...

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