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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Hear art curator William S. Rubin discussing seminal influences on Cubism, especially as developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
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"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm
Cubism: Art and Artists
Detail of the Chrysler Building, New York City, New York (photographed in 2007).
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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, 1907; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

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Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honored theories that art should imitate nature. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, color, and space. Instead, they presented a...

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