cubes

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)The Guitarist, 1910Oil on canvas

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cezanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes."

Georges Braque (1882–1963)Houses at L'Estaque, 1908Oil on canvas

Paul Cezanne)Quarry Bibémus 1898-1900Oil on canvas

“Nature should be handled with the cylinder, sphere and cone.”

Paul Cezanne 

Kazimir MalevichBlack Square, 1913Oil on canvas

Kazimir MalevichBlack Circle, 1913

Oil on canvas

Suprematism was an art movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (in particular the square and circle) which formed in Russia in 1915-1916.

Kazimir MalevichSuprematist CompositionWhite Square, 1918oil on canvas

cubic art frequently proceeds from mathematical formulas, and tend to be illustrative of the results

Minimalism:

"Art excludes the unnecessary. “Carl Andre

"The more stuff in it, the busier the work of art, the worse it is. More is less. Less is more.”

Ad Reinhardt

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