Picasso and cubism
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CUBISM AND PICASSO
The Cubist style of painting was developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso around 1907. The Cubists admired the work of Post-Impressionists such as Seurat, Gaugin and Cezanne. Their influence encouraged Cubists to include new and unusual objects in their painting. Instead of showing just one view of a subject, the artists showed several different views at one time. For example a painting of a person might show their front and their side at the same time. Some of these artists 'broke' their work into different geometric shapes. These artists usually used quieter colours or monochrome colours. Other cubist artists used more decorative shapes and brighter colours. The most well known cubism artists are Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay.
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881...