What is cubist style? In what era? Who is the representative painter? What are the representative works?

Cubism is a movement and school in the history of modern western art, also translated as cubism. 1908 began in France. It is a school of avant-garde art movement, which completely changed European painting and sculpture at the beginning of the 20th century. Cubism is an artistic school full of ideas. It mainly pursues the beauty of a geometric form and the aesthetic feeling produced by the arrangement and combination of forms. Cubism has a strong formalism tendency under the slogan of anti-tradition. However, its exploration in artistic form has greatly promoted the practical art fields such as modern arts and crafts, decorative arts and architectural arts, which pay attention to formal beauty.

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Cubism is used to name the artistic exploratory creations of Picasso, Braque, Grice and Legge during the period from 1907 to 19 14.

The critic Walksell used the words "cube" and "eccentricity of cube" in his comments on Braque's art exhibition, and cubism officially entered the painting world.

The exploration of cubist painters began with Cezanne's theory and creative practice. They regard Cezanne's sentence "cylinders, spheres and cones should be used to express nature" as their artistic pursuit. In essence, this is the reflection of the social reality of industrial civilization and machine age in the early 20th century on the painter's spirit.

The representative painters of cubism are Picasso and Braque. Picasso once said, "When we engage in cubism, we don't intend to engage in cubism, but we want to express what we have." Braque admitted: "Cubism, or rather my cubism, is a means I created and used to make painting conform to my talent." The combination of their two temperaments, and through the efforts of Grice and Legge, enabled them to reunite, which formed a dynamic cubism.

The development of cubism has experienced three periods: Cezanne period of 1907- 1909; The period of analytical cubism from 1909 to 19 12. First of all, they broke the traditional painting method that can only be expressed according to a fixed viewpoint, and then arranged on the same painting plane. With the deepening of exploration, they found that such "analysis" often makes the picture lose its original shape more and more and fall into an abstract shape. Therefore, from 19 12 to 19 14, they entered the period of "comprehensive cubism". Their point of view is that instead of depicting the external form of objective objects, it is better to introduce objective objects into painting, so that the figurative objects themselves can be integrated with abstract structural forms.

Cubist painters have no systematic theoretical guidance, and everyone explores according to their own ideas. Picasso said, "I want to paint according to my imagination, not according to what I see." Braque also said: "The painter does not want to constitute an anecdote, but creates a painting fact."

The emergence of cubism is also the inevitable development of art itself. In traditional painting, painting only according to the objective nature shows only a part and side of nature. With the changes of modern life of modern people: objectivity and microcosmic, speed and variability, and the limitation of machines on people, painting is required to show such diversity and complexity; Plato's view of geometric beauty in ancient Greece and Cezanne's view of deliberately describing the structure and eternity of things, together with the enlightenment of African black sculpture, led to the emergence of cubism art.