Breakthroughs of Pablo Picasso and George Braque

             Painting is one of the most interesting skills to have. Any child can do it, but the important thing in painting is the use of styles. The people who have talents can use styles very successfully and can create new techniques. With the new techniques, primitive art lost the sense and artists found modern techniques so the modern art period started. Looking for the origin of modern art, it is the way of primitive art. Primitive art is far away from culture, traditions, styles but we must consider that modern art comes after developing primitive styles. That is to say; modern art is affected by primitivism (Goldwater,1986). Art becomes meaningful because it has the power to express ideas, forms, and events; it reflects people's opinions, artists' feelings. Modern art began with Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 19th century and new art styles and movements appeared and disappeared (Smith,1972). All distinct styles came from different aspects of the changing world and each reflects modernism in its own way. The most effective period of modern art was the 20th century and Cubism which is the paintings with cubic shapes is the most influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. (Herbert,1964). Picasso and Braque used similar common styles of cubism, but the differences are most important which are their own styles and object that they used, different forms of Cubism movement that they started, and the different political views that they showed as a reflection of their ideas in their paintings. Even they had different or similar ideas of Cubism, both of the two was the creator of Cubism at the same time but I can say that Picasso had more influence on Cubism than Braque.
             The only similar characteristic of Picasso and Braque is their styles because they initiate the cubism movement at the same place and time toget...

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