Chain Of Art

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Term Paper Title	Chain Of Art
# of Words	657
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.63

Chain Of Art

The Chain of Art
     Cubism was one of the strongest art movements in the 20th century that gave birth to many other movements such as futurism and suprematism.  The Forefathers of this revolutionary way of painting were Pablo Picasso and George Braque.  Although it may have seemed to be abstract and geometrical to an untrained eye, cubist art do depict real objects.  The shapes are flattened onto canvas so that different sides of each shape can be shown simultaneously from many angles.  This new style gave a 3 dimensional look on the canvas.  The cubist movement gave rise to an extraordinary reassessment of the interaction between form and space changing the course of western art forever.
     The groundbreaking Demoiselles d’Avignon was controversial not only for the way the women looked but also for the positions of the women.  Although Picasso did not emphasize on detail, he “saw that the rational, often geometric breakdown if the human head and body employed by so many African artists could provide him with the starting point for his own re-appraisal of his subjects”(Cubism 53).  “The naked women become inextricably bound up in a flux of shapes or planes which tip backwards and forwards from the two-dimensional surface to produce much the same sensation as an elaborate sculpture…”(Cubism 54).
     Futurism was an art movement, which was influenced by cubist art.  Cubism showed no motion it was futurism that was fascinated with machinery, transport and communications.  In paintings and sculpture, angular forms and powerful lines were used to convey a sense of activity, this was a Futurist’s way of showing motion and speed.  One of it’s innovator’s was Umberto Boccioni who said “We want represent not the optical or analytical impression but the physical and total experience” (Futurism 101).  “They now pinned less faith on the power of new subject matter and strove to complement their colour divisionism with fragmentation of the cubist sort” (Futurism 101).
     Suprematism was influenced by cubism because of it g...

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