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Cubism was a twentieth century art movement that revolutionized painting and sculpture by flattening and distorting space. Artists fully exploited the visual possibilities of this changing reality in a variety of ways. Not only did they create patterned images rather than realistic illusions, but they usually chose machine-produced objects as their subjects rather than the [...]

The art movement, Cubism, began in 1908 and strongly influenced art and sculpture in the early 20C.
Cubism dissected painted images, then reassembled them as abstract forms. Cubism showed images which could be seen from all angles. Subjects were painted in cube form, hence the name, Cubism.
French painters, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were foremost in [...]

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