Cubism Flashcards
An art movement that showed objects in their basic geometric shapes and distorted realism.
Cubism
A technique in Cubism that creates textural effects using paper and other materials in the composition.
Collage
A painting period characterized by depictions of beggars and miserable humanity.
Blue Period
A painting period characterized by circus subjects.
Rose Period
French artist and leader of Cubism whose compositions aimed to represent the world from multiple viewpoints.
Georges Braque
Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism, and known as the Father of Collage.
Pablo Picasso
A painting by Pablo Picasso that translates to ‘streetwalkers of Avignon,’ depicting women from multiple perspectives.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
A painting by Pablo Picasso that serves as a historical documentation of the war in Spain.
Guernica
A painting by Pablo Picasso featuring a distorted reflection of a girl.
Girl Before A Mirror
A painting by Pablo Picasso from his Blue Period depicting a musician.
Old Guitarist
A painting by Georges Braque that exemplifies Cubist representation of musical instruments.
Piano & the Mandola
A painting by Georges Braque that presents a fragmented view of a violin and a candlestick.
Violin & the Candlestick
A painting by Marcel Duchamp depicting motion through Cubist abstraction, though later associated with Dadaism.
Nude Descending the Stairs
French artist known for his association with both Cubism and Dadaism, though critics did not credit his work as Cubist.
Marcel Duchamp
