Aesthetic revolution created in the
painting and the sculpture of 1907 until 1914. The name originated ahead from a commentary of Matisse about a picture of Braque displayed in 1908. He spokes of “small
cubes”. The critic of
art Louis Vauxcelles retook the word in another exposition of Braque and launched the term; even so the creators of the
movement did not accept it. Three periods in this movement can be distinguished:
Cezanian - 1907 until 1909
Analytical - 1910 until 1912
Synthetic - 1913 until 1914.
Cézanne considered that the
nature could be summarized in cylinders, spheres and cones (it does not mention cubes). Its influence and those of the black masks had made to appear a constructive spirit in
reaction to the dispersion of the impressionism and the colorful impulses of the fauvism. It was also a reaction against a painting of illusion, to create an art conceived by the intelligence, to reduce everything to simple forms, representing objects and
elements of the nature under different aspects. Atmospheric elements, perspective and the clearly-dark one were excluded. The predominance was of grey and ochre.
Many painters had had its cubist phase as Picasso, Delaunay, Léger, Gleizes Lhote, Metzinger, Archipenko, Juan Gris and Braque.
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