Cubist Ideas and the Modernist Arts

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The cubist art work has certain attributes which define its construction and conception. These ideas, clustering around these works of art, were applied to other art forms with varying results. This paper explores how these new and original ideas about cubism manifested themselves in the productions of art in other genres.

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"The Cubist style must be viewed as an extension of the anti-Romanic, anti-Impressionistic mood expressed by progressive artists in many creative genres in the fin de siecle period and later. As Cocteau wrote in his "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," the artists were sickened "by the vague, the melting, the superfluous"(82). It had its most intensely creative period between roughly 1908 and beginning of the First World War. The most important center for this "reaction" in all of the arts was Paris. Picasso and Braque are generally seen as the seminal artists in this new form called Cubism. They were interested in getting beyond what they saw as the limiting concept of perspective, which the artistic tradition had inherited from the Renaissance."

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