Facets of Cubism
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 - Sunday, April 16, 2006
Juan Gris’ mastery of collage informs his drawing style. In the spiraling arrangement of his Still Life (1915-16), snippets of reality appear to be layered one upon the other.
“This is an art that plays with difficulties and conquers them."
—Guillaume Apollinaire
Cubism was the watershed moment of twentieth-century art. In about 1907 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque broke sharply with traditions in western painting. They discarded pictorial illusionism and linear perspective to create images that reflected a new experience of everyday reality. As Picasso mused, “I wonder whether it isn’t more important to paint the things that we know rather than those that we see." Other artists working in France—among them Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Henri Laurens, and Jacques Lipchitz—soon joined the revolution. Cubism, by no means restricted to painting, also radically transformed the arts of sculpture, printmaking, drawing, watercolor, and typography. ...
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