Cubism

Cubism
Early twentieth century European art movement characterized by the rendering of forms as simplified planes, lines and geometric shapes.
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Cubism
Cubism, another modern art movement, was primarily restricted to painting and sculpture. Nevertheless it had a major influence on the development of modern art.

Some of modern art is great -- some of the cubism is mathematically interesting, if sophisticated enough; Calder's mobils are interesting, etc -- but a lot of it is just total junk.

Thus the parameters of Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, etc cannot be maintained very much beyond the time of their invention.

The departure from the more traditional style of photograph, as expressed in his work seemed to display the social contradictions and inequalities of the time translated into a form of surrealism and cubism giving his work a timeless quality.

See also: Photograph, Photography, Development, Image, Mount