Cubism

Cubism
The appearance of Fauve art had surprised and shocked the Paris art world in 1905. Two years later even the Fauve artists themselves were startled by the experiments begun by Pablo Picasso. Picasso, a Spaniard, had come to Paris to practice his art. He had won initial success with bluish, melancholy paintings. Then in 1907 he tried something completely different. Influenced by the art of African sculpture, he began to look at the human figure as sculpture. He painted faces and bodies as if he were cutting them into solid shapes with a knife rather than a paint brush. In so doing, he…