In 1906, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started developing Cubism, an avant-garde style of painting in which objects are analyzed, synthesized, and depicted as a combination of geometric shapes seen from multiple angles. They began painting still life subjects and portraits showing multiple views simultaneously rather than a single perspective. This simplified objects and figures into geometric forms, helping establish Cubism as a new art movement.

1. Cubism
Shapes

2. Cubism
 In 1906, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started working together. They
began to paint still life pictures and portraits in a different way. Their
paintings show several viewpoints of each object or person. The persona or
objects are seen from different angles, the front and the sides all at once.
The features and/or objects are simplified into GEOMETRIC SHAPES. This way
of working became known as CUBISM.

3. Pablo Picasso
 Born: October 25, 1881; Málaga, Spain
 Died: April 8, 1973; Mougins, France
 Active Years: 1895 - 1973
 Nationality: Spanish
 Art Movement: Cubism, Post-Impressionism,
Neoclassicism, Surrealism
 Painting School: École de Paris
 Field: painting, sculpture, drawing, lithography, graphics
 Influenced by: Marc Chagall, Henri Rousseau, El Greco,
Francisco Goya, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Henri
Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Nicolas Poussin, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
 Art institution: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San
Fernando, Madrid, Spain
 Friends and Co-workers: Georges Braque, Constantin
Brancusi, Man Ray, Max Jacob, Amedeo Modigliani,
Christopher Wood, Mykhailo Boychuk, C. R. W. Nevinson,
Valentine Hugo

4. Cubism
Guitar (I love Eva)
 Pablo Picasso
 Date: 1912
 Style: Cubism
 Period: Cubist Period
 Genre: still life
 Media: oil, canvas
 Location: Musée Picasso, Paris,
France

5. George Braque
 Born: May 13, 1882
 Died: August 31, 1963
 Active Years: 1900 - 1963
 Nationality: French
 Art Movement: Cubism
 Painting School: École de Paris, Les Fauves
 Field: painting, sculpture
 Influenced by: Nicolas Poussin
 Influenced on: David Alfaro Siqueiros,
Vilhelm Lundstrom, Mikhail Larionov,
Carlos Nadal
 Friends and Co-workers: Pablo Picasso,
Max Jacob

6. Cubism
Guitar and Fruit Dish
 Georges Braque
 Date: 1909; France
 Style: Analytical Cubism
 Genre: still life
 Media: oil, canvas
 Location: Kunstmuseum Bern,
Bern, Switzerland
 Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm