The ideological inspirer of the Cubists, whose posthumous exhibition at the Paris Autumn Salon of 1907 served as the impetus for the emergence of the style, was:

Who is the author of the following quote?

“When we started to paint cubistically, it was not our intention to reinvent cubism. We just wanted to express what we had got in ourselves”

The founders of the movement were two artists who had similar views on painting but came to Cubism in different ways. One of them was inspired by African and primitive Iberian art, and the other one was inspired by the simplified Fauvist method. Who were those artists?

Cubism from its inception in 1907 covers a period of time as an active and popular style…

Cubism was first presented to the public at the personal exhibition of Georges Braque at the Kahnweiler gallery on rue Vignon in Paris (November 1908). This exhibition forced French art critic Louis Voxel to describe the painting of Braque as “bizarre cubes”, thereby giving the name to the movement. The picture that got this comment is called…

The following motives were characteristic of artworks in the style of cubism:

Cubist paintings depicted mostly static objects: still lifes, landscapes, houses. However, they sometimes worked in the portrait genre, creating interesting images of the human face. How did Cubist artists depict people?

Cubist works are distinguished by the following features:

The entire Cubist period can be roughly divided into three periods. At the first stage, objects were simplified to strictly geometric forms, at the second stage, objects were divided into component parts and depicted simultaneously from different angles of view. At the third stage, artists began to use collage techniques, introducing symbolic objects into their compositions. Choose the fourth unnecessary:

During the period of synthetic cubism, artists created works in which details of small objects and newspaper clippings were pasted onto canvas and served as artistic symbols. What is this method called?

Spouses Robert and Sonia Delaunay developed their own cubist style with bright colour fields and a special system of rounded graphic symbols. How did Guillaume Apollinaire call this style?

In Russia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, an original art and literary movement emerged on the border of two styles. Its representatives – D. Burliuk, N. Goncharova, O. Rozanova, L. Popova – received a special name – …

In 1916, Pablo Picasso exhibited a painting created in 1907, which caused a great response. It depicted naked women in candid poses with masks instead of faces. There was no perspective in this picture, and objects were depicted in the form of the simplest geometric shapes. What is the name of this famous painting, a striking example of Cubism?

What was the name of the artistic association of Cubists that existed in Paris from 1908 to 1914, which included Albert Gleizes, Roger de la Fresnaye, Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger, Robert Delaunay, Jacques Villon and others?

Which of the following works was NOT created by Pablo Picasso?

A Filipino artist, a prominent representative of Cubism. He was the creator of his own style of “transparent cubism”, in which images are superimposed on each other, creating a feeling of lightness and weightlessness. What is the artist’s name?

The colour palette of artists during the period of Analytical Cubism was distinguished by the following features:

Scientific work on Cubism was published in 1912. Its authors were Gleizes and Metzinger. What was the title of this book?

The famous painting by Marcel Duchamp, which was not recognized by either the Cubists or the Futurists, depicted movement by successively superimposing the same fragments on top of each other. The artist was inspired to create this composition by the idea of chronophotography by Edward Maybridge. It’s about a painting called…

A Ukrainian artist who lived in France and created a number of canvases, including self-portraits, in the style of orphism, as well as “mobile” figures and an optophone:

Where besides France was Cubism most widespread?

One of the largest representatives of Cubism in the sculpture of Ukrainian origin, the author of the “negative space” technique, when not only the object itself is important but also what is located around it. What is the sculptor’s name?

Who was the first to bring Picasso’s cubist works to Russia, becoming the pioneer of this movement in the country?

Who were outstanding representatives of Czech Cubism?

The most famous Hungarian Cubist in art history is rightly considered…

Which of the following contemporary artists was NOT a Cubist?

Cubism expanded the boundaries of art and opened up new possibilities for creativity. It had a huge impact on the development of abstract painting. Which of the listed art movements are NOT related to this style?

Which painting by Picasso does NOT belong to Cubism but was made in the style of post-impressionism?

This well-known abstract artist was a follower of Cubism; he was one of the first to come to a complete rejection of natural forms and objects, at least in the least resembling real objects or figures. What was the name of this representative of pure abstraction?