A New Angle - Cubism

Cubism was a new innovative experimental art movement, pioneered by artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque. It explores both the human form and objective forms from different angles and creates a fractured, abstract image build of shard like forms with images of an object from different angles, almost as if it has been shattered and pieced back together. It's highly regarded as one of the most influential, if not the most influential art movement of the last century, as it gave artists a new way to think about their artwork, leading into far more complex movements such as surrealism. It has influenced fashion too; many designers have looked into the different ways we see the body and have taken the typical shapes and abstracted them to give new silhouettes.

(Source: burgessart.wordpress) One of Picasso's cubist works - he had quite a few cubist styles, and this one is far more analytic than experimental. It captures the person so you can tell that they are indeed a person, but disjoints and fractures the image to give a sense of movement.

(Source: artyfactory.com) Picasso's famous 'Weeping Woman' - you can see the major differences in the two images - this one is extreme abstractionism, and in this case the cubism fractures give her an entirely broken look, as if her emotions are projected directly onto her form.

Cubism is one of my favourite art movements because I strongly feel it almost forces you to look at something from a new perspective, allowing you to break through any restrictions you had about it before - you'll notice something new, and from that you can gain new inspirations and new creative techniques.