Cubism

Cubism is one of the modernism trends that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. They say that it was a joint effort of Picasso and Braque that resided in Montmartre, Paris. Both artists are viewed as innovators. Later on, Cubism developed into a broad art movement that influenced a lot of the World Literature trends, including Dada and Surrealism.

The philosophy of cubism comes to the depiction of objects as broken up, investigated, and assembled into an abstracted form again. The main idea is to analyze the object from different viewpoints in order to represent it in a wider context. All the details penetrate into an integral unit.

In the World Literature, Cubism was presented by works of many authors, but one of the main ones is "The Makings of Americans" by Gertrude Stein. His written technique is considered to be one of the most appropriate under Cubism standards.

The poets that are usually seen as Cubist poets are Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy. It was Kenneth Rexroth that tried to explicit the inner nature of cubism saying that the most essential idea of it comes to the dissemination and recombination of elements into a new art piece.

Today, Cubism appears to be an extremely broad art direction that continues to influence upon the development of a great number of current art styles. It also proves to be commercially profitable.