Cubism

Upon its inception around the 1907, Cubism did not immediately attract the following it deserved. An avant-garde artistic style born to fathers Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque it was an initialy neglected artform due to the impression inhereted by most artists of the time. Through its the introduction Cubism allowed artists to emphasize two-dimensionality in their art through geometric forms and fractured pieces of the subject being placed back together. It was commonly assumed during this period that art should be closely modeled to how things are viewed in nature. This assumption misrepresented the entire freedom art allows by allowing artists to create their pieces based on their own perspectives and perceptions of beauty. Picasso and Braque by understood the importance of maintaining the beauty of art through thought and newer and grander standards, created a new artistic style which sparked several other branches of Cubism into the artistic movement.