Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Cubism sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Cubism (c. 1907 – 1920s), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Post-Impressionism; it runs alongside two parallel movements, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: the Paris School and Primitivism; it fans out to 14 movements it went on to influence, all well-established links: Abstract art, Art Deco, Constructivism, Crystal Cubism, Cubo-Futurism, Dada, De Stijl, Futurism, Geometric abstract art and Orphism, and four more.
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Cubist subjects are analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstract form. Instead of depicting objects from a single perspective, the artist depicts the subject from multiple perspectives to represent the subject in a greater context. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term cubism is broadly associated with a variety of artworks produced in Paris (Montmartre and Montparnasse) or near Paris (Puteaux) during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s. Read more ↗
