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    Picasso Cubism Picasso just like any other artist evolved over his long artistic career but his evolution of fracturing and multi-views during the Cubism movement is of most importance. Cubism was developed by Picasso and Georges Braque and lasted from 1909 to 1912 and involves the use of monochromatic neutral colors and the taking apart of objects and analyzing them based on their shapes. The later is defined as fracturing, while the multi-views is when he looked at different objects from different

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    Impressionism vs. Cubism Art, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a human skill of expression of other objects by painting, drawing, and sculpture. People have used art as a form of expression for a long time. From the Mesopotamian era to the Classical Greeks and the present. Art is expressed in many different ways and styles, and is rapidly changing, one style replacing another. Impressionism and Cubism broke away from the traditional style of painting. They were both looking for

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    visual appeals. Completely different structure-based projects are born like the art of sculpting and architecture. Adding on, artistic methods can evolve; painting evolved from realistic self portraits of royalty and riches to a style of art known as “Cubism,” in which the artist uses block shapes and unusual modern design that is sometimes seemingly hard to depict from the viewer’s eye. Artists are likely to create pieces that form a response that reflects upon what is going on at that present time.

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    period. Two of these major movements are Cubism and Futurism, which contrast in their origins, philosophies, and method of creating art, their distinguishing characteristics, and method of relating the subject and viewer in time and space, as well as the artists involved and their unique artworks. By comparing both Movements, I will be able to distinguish the difference as well as the similarities between these movements and the impact they have in modern art. Cubism Which was an Early Twentieth Century

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    Picasso's analytical cubism period, numerous works of art emerged that were unlike any of his several other periods. One of these pieces was the Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler created in nineteen ten. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculpture, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright. The medium of this particular piece is oil on canvas and is 39.6 in × 29 in. Currently, this painting is being displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL. Cubism was an extremely

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    Cubism and Multiplicity of Narration in The Waste Land Abstract The aim of this essay is to consider the multiplicity of narration in The Waste Land and its relationship in enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images,

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    • Cubism was the art movement that took modern art to the next level. It was one of the first major forms of Abstractionism. Cubism looks as if the painting was build with blocks. Artists used blocks and geometric shapes to form figures of men and women. There was no certain color scheme, however colors were usually very different in order to distinguish parts of the body. Anatomy was jumbled, but bodies were clear and visible. Pablo Picasso is known to be a mastermind of the art world.

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    During the beginning of the 20th century the world was developing at an unprecedented, intense speed, artists were looking for a new Avant garde way to create works. Hence, cubism came to life- “a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques” (Lance 2010 :2). Many critics challenged this new style due to its unconventional use of semiotics and lack of social sense. However, this is exactly what Cubists wanted to be, unconventional- challenging the traditions

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    foundations were put to the test and it was completely disordered by revolutionary ideas and styles. This art influenced a vast majority of modern day art. Pablo Picasso’s cubism and Henri Matisse fauvism helped shape this era not only in style of painting, but a revolution against conformity of a social artistic structure. Cubism was a style of painting imagined, created, and performed by Pablo Picasso.

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    The Cubist painter renounced the work of artists who drew only what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the appraisers of conventional art, Cubist painters assembled shapes and movement from different angles to create a completely innovative artistic perspective. Like the Cubist artist, Gertrude Stein, a modernist writer of the 20th century, rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to model the speech of the English language just as it required art to model

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