Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the Cubists broke from centuries of tradition in their painting. It must be indeed a painstaking process to put the different pieces together to make and represent a whole that is splintered but whole at the same time. The Cubist art movement began in Paris around 1907. While we are talking about this concept with ease, you can only imagine how difficult it must be for the artist to not only imagine and conceptualize something like this and then work at creating it. The many faces we have and the way feel and look when we are different states of mind seems to be a big favorite when it comes to cubism. The way the music flows in a group of musicians producing the sound and the way the vibrations of the music dash and meld with each other is something that we feel is shown in cubist way of painting such concepts. In some cases, like the cubist representation of a musical instrument could be how the instrument splinters from within to give you such a lovely sound. Cubism art in the representation of the core of the apple could on the one hand represent the remains of something cute and pretty like an apple when someone has consumed it, and another facet could show the seed which has the capacity to regenerate and create a new tree to give us some more apples. The split is visible and so is the way you have imperfectly joined the two halves together. Some people feel that cubism is the apt representation of the way our soul and our inner self breaks when it faces a trauma and then joins back but it is never like what you originally were. One of the split shapes in a painting of a face can be the representation of your personal life, another your professional, yet another what you are with your siblings and yet another the child you become when you face your parents no matter what your age is or what stage your life is at. Some even call this a representation of the many faces that a person has as they deal with the different things that they face.
It may also have been a way of establishing a distinction from what they believed to be a narrower definition of Cubism that Picasso and Braque practised.While this may seem simple enough to some and very easy to understand, there are some who feel that these paintings are the representation of someone who has a split personality. It was a nod to the mathematics seen in geometric Cubism, since the name refers to the golden ratio, found in mathematics and occurring in nature, and which is supposed to be especially pleasing to the eye. Their subsequent exhibition a year later saw further artists joining and a new group name: the Section d’Or, which translates to "the golden section". The set were friends with the critic, Apollinaire, with the term first seen publicly here. The group’s joint exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in October 1911 saw the first public exhibition of Cubism art. He was also friends with the artists in the group - Laurencin exhibited alongside him and they became firm friends. While that may seem a bit harsh, let’s not forget Picasso was inspired by others too, and that many other people are inspired by and work within different movements. The group comprised of artists Jean Metzinger, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Leger, Robert Delauney, Henri le Fauconnier and Albert Gleizes, but neither Picasso nor Braque. The group met in the Puteaux suburb of Paris to discuss all things art, and in particular Picasso’s groundbreaking style. Well, a group of artists formed a club to discuss this new art style, called the Puteaux Group. What did people think of Cubism when it debuted?
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