Why is there even a genre refered to as cubism? Doesn't that seem amazingly narrow in the grand scheme?

Answer 1

In the "Grand Scheme" of things, Cubism is the most important movement of the first half of the 20th Century... AND the Argument can be made that Cubism is the most important movement of the whole century.

Cubism challenged our way of seeing and thinking about the world in a way that few other Movements could.

Answer 2

The history of art is liked a train where something new and outof the ordinary occurs at each station which will redirect the train in a new direction. Cubism (1907 and 1914)- a style invented by Picasso and his colleague Braque - is an important way station in the history of modern art, having enormous influence for the futur. .
Its name derived from remarks made by the painter Henri Matisse and the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who derisively described Braque's 1908 work "Houses at L'Estaque" as made up of little cubes.
The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and the age-old idea tradion that painting should imitate nature. Cubist painters were not bound to copy what they saw, whether form, texture, colour, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted only what the artist himself found important, most often objects shown in outline, split into fragments, and/or shown from several angles at once.
No, Cubism shouldn't be dismissed as narrow in the grand scheme, but of great importance. After Cubism, the art of the painting was never the same again.

Answer 3

No ... er.. it just got that name from some critics.. It is just a name.

You got a name and you wouldn't call that "amazingly narrow in the grand scheme"? At least for your sake I hope not.

Answer 4

I agree. The only cubist painter I can rattle off right now is Picasso. But, he "borrowed" (a.k.a stole) his "cubist" motif from African sculptures that he saw when he visited Africa. I can't remember where in Africa... I want to say West Africa...

Answer 5

they were searching for answers, and offering "responses" to theories of others . check out what theories Cezanne, then Picasso had about it...

same goes for Hip Hop, I suppose - we could ask the same question about anything current...

Answer 6

I can tell you'd love "Art and Physics" by Leonard Shlain.

Answer 7

The grand scheme is not prejudice ...