Cubism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, cubism rejected traditional perspective and sought to depict subject matter from a multitude of viewpoints in order to represent the subject in the round. Cubist works are characterized by the geometric fragmentation and synthetic reassembling of forms.

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2. CubismCubism
Cubism was a movement that began in France in the early
20th
Century by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French
artist Georges
Picasso Georges

3. CubismCubism
Cubism rejected the idea of
using perspective to create art
as seen in nature. It was
geometric and two dimensionalgeometric and two dimensional.
Objects were “broken apart”
and the pieces could be viewed
from all sides.

4. When and what?When and what?
• 1906 - 1914
• Three stages:
– Early Cubism
1906 – 1909
– Analytical Cubism
1909 – 1912
– Synthetic Cubism
1912 - 1914

5. Early Cubism:
depiction of the whole
structure of the object and
its position in space,
combining different
viewpoints.
The Vase, Bowl, Lemon,
Picasso 1907

6. Analytical Cubism:
breaking down of the
subject and the space
around it into angular
planes or facets that
record different viewpoints
and information; no
interest in colour or
texture
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on
a mantelpiece, Braque 1911

7. Synthetic Cubism:
collages of interlocked
fragments of newspaper,
wallpaper, and labels with
fragments of painting,
drawing and writing;
colour reintroduced &
texture & pattern
Bottle, Glass, Guitar and
newspaper, Picasso 1913

8. Characteristics of CubismCharacteristics of Cubism
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Abstract
Broken Mirror Effect
Rearranged
Geometric
More than one view
Simplified Shapes

9. AbstractAbstract does not look likedoes not look like
real lifereal life
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10. Broken Mirror EffectBroken Mirror Effect

11. RearrangedRearranged
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12. Geometric ShapesGeometric Shapes

13. More than one viewMore than one view
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14. Simplified ShapesSimplified Shapes

15. Shakir AliShakir Ali
 Born in 1922, Pakistan
Shakir Ali has spent 12
years, 7 years in
Bombay and 5 in
London to learn classic
and modern art.
 He came back to
Pakistan in 1952

16. Shakir AliShakir Ali
Art for Shakir is a meant of expressing his
own lonely personality.
It is devoid of sensuousness and
sentimentality, and possesses the distilled
quality of brooding in solitude on subjects from
life, which only provide point of departure into
the realm of line, tone values and color.

17. Shakir AliShakir Ali
In the work of such artist, the appearance of
recognizable object is cause for confusion among
the viewers.

18. Mansoor RahiMansoor Rahi
Mansoor Rahi has played an instrumental role in
spreading art for the last four decades. His paintings
are unique and take the viewers to a far off land.
Profession: Painter
Location: Islamabad
Born: 1938

19. MansoorRahiMansoorRahi
Mansoor Rahi’s paintings are intricate as they
involve a lot of mathematics.
It is an established fact that Mansoor Rahi does a
lot of calculations before starting any of his
paintings. The mastery is evident in his paintings,
as he is adopted the cubist genre.

20. Mansoor RahiMansoor Rahi
Rahi is the only artist who took the charge of
introducing regular development in cubism after
Picasso, who took noticeable development in
cubism.