Cubism
was the creation of the painters Georges Braque (1882–1963) and
Pablo Picasso
, working separately in Paris around 1907. Art historians customarily divide its development into two periods: Analytic Cubism (1907–12) and Synthetic Cubism (1912–21). The signature of Cubism is the rendering of solid objects—whether they be musical instruments, household objects, or human forms—as overlapping cubes
or planes, giving the illusion of portraying simultaneously several different...
