ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Cubism was a new movement in art that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. Its emergence in France led to new movements in music and literature. 2. George Braque developed Cubic art with Pablo Picasso, and his paintings “Violence and Candlestick” and ‘Women with a Guitar’ give abstract reality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Woman with a Guitar » Norton Simon Museum. Painted in early 1913, this composition exemplifies the style known as Synthetic Cubism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cubism is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which employs geometric shapes in depictions of humans and other forms. Over time, the geometric touches grew so intense that they sometimes overtook the represented forms, creating a more pure level of visual abstraction.

Detailed explanation-4: -Braque entered what is called a synthetic phase of Cubism. He began to use more colors and to represent objects through large planes. Braque created “Woman Musician” in 1917, which exhibited the geometric planes and strong colors of synthetic Cubism (Braque).

Detailed explanation-5: -Arguably one of the most famous Cubist artworks is Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The stylisation and distortion in this painting were inspired by African art, which Picasso had first seen in person in 1907 at the ethnographic museum in the Palais du Trocadéro in Paris.