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What is pre-Cubist?Show answer
Picasso's African-mask experiments. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) marks the threshold.
What is analytic Cubism?Show answer
Picasso and Braque work together. Faceted form, near-monochrome palette (greys, ochres, browns), multiple simultaneous viewpoints. Highly intellectual and theoretical.
What is synthetic Cubism?Show answer
Introduction of collage and pasted paper. Brighter palette. More overtly playful.
What is end?Show answer
WWI disperses the Paris avant-garde. Braque is conscripted; the close collaboration ends.
What is les Demoiselles d'Avignon?Show answer
Oil on canvas, 244 by 234 cm, MoMA New York. Pre-Cubist threshold work.
What is portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler?Show answer
Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago. Analytic Cubism.
What is violin and Pitcher?Show answer
Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel. Analytic Cubism.
What is still Life with Chair Caning?Show answer
Oil and oilcloth on canvas, Musee Picasso Paris. Synthetic Cubism threshold.
What is le Portugais?Show answer
Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel. Stencilled letters; Analytic Cubism approaching Synthetic.
What is pablo Picasso?Show answer
Spanish, the dominant figure.
What is georges Braque?Show answer
French, Picasso's primary collaborator.
What is juan Gris?Show answer
Spanish, joined the movement in 1911. Synthetic Cubism is partly Gris.
What is fernand Leger?Show answer
French, developed a related "tubular" Cubism.
What is daniel-Henry Kahnweiler?Show answer
German dealer, the institutional support.
What is structural frame?Show answer
The dominant frame. Cubism is studied as a movement entirely defined by its formal language.