A cubist portrait, France first quarter 20th C. signed MP oil
on board, in it's original frame
Cubism
was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early
twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis
Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque
had painted in 1908 at L’Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles
called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works “cubes.”
Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism and
non-Western sources.