Please read the information, and look at the images, on the following pages before answering the quiz questions. Cubism Cubism was one of the most important Art movements of the 20th century. It began in France around 1907, and thrived from 1910 through the 1920s. It was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Cubism is a style of Art which aims to show all of the possible viewpoints of a person or an object all at once. It is called Cubism because the items represented in the artworks look like they are made out of cubes and other geometrical shapes.

Cubism was first started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Analytical Cubism was the first type of cubism. Most analytical Cubism painted and drew in monochrome (only one colour) so that the person who was looking at the painting did not pay attention to colour, but only to the shapes and the forms that were being shown.

This was changed in 1912 when Picasso first started painting with colours and using collages. Collage is when you glue together different cut-up pieces of paper to make an artwork. This new form of Cubism was called Synthetic Cubism. Picasso invented collage because he was tired of the way he was making his Art, and wanted to try out something new.

Pablo Picasso created over 20,000 pictures. The period from 1912 to 1919 was Picasso's Synthetic Cubism Period.

Bottle and Fishes by Georges Braque The Weeping Woman by

Pablo Picasso

Vorticism

Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter, and critic. He helped to create an Art movement called Vorticism. This was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century and was partly inspired by Cubism and Futurism. The movement was announced in 1912 and lasted until around 1915. The artwork included geometric shapes and machine-like imagery to represent the modern world. The style can also be defined by its bold colours, harsh lines and sharp angles.

Composition by Wyndham Lewis Workshop by Wyndham Lewis