Cubism Represents a Multitude of Viewpoints Yielding a Deeper Understanding →

Cubist artwork, some say, is the most influential art movement known. It changed a wide range of ideas as far as art was concerned in the 1910s and 1920s, allowing for the development of abstract modern art movements.

In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist shows the subject from a multitude of perspectives to represent the subject in a greater context.

Cubist art can be described as three-dimensional art consisting of geometric planes and shapes. Works of Pablo Picasso that consist of interlocking shapes and geometric planes are examples.

"The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive

“Woman's Head”

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