analytical cubism

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Noun1.analytical cubism - the early phase of cubismanalytical cubism - the early phase of cubism    
cubism - an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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Peter Wollen's Raiding the Icebox analysed a decorative modernism in Paris around 1910, exemplified by the textiles of Paul Poiret and by the Gesamtkunstwerk that was the Ballets Russes, setting them against histories dominated by analytical cubism. Alexandra Harris's brilliant Romantic Modems charted another counter-movement, a 'passionate, exuberant return to tradition' among a loosely linked group of British writers and artists just before and during the Second World War.
The canvases downstairs, with a few exceptions, were redolent of Analytical Cubism. This was true not only of the works' coloration--a subdued, at times nearly grisaille, palette of grays and earth tones--but also of their compositional approach, which was based on a concatenation of representational fragments in a shallow space.
Influenced by analytical cubism, which is renowned for breaking objects and images into components, Mondrian pioneered reductive form and color, through an abbreviated pictorial vernacular.
At this stage it became known as Analytical Cubism. In a Cubist painting, the depth of the picture is shallow, and the depth of a picture is frequently compressed, so that it looks flat.
As a direct outgrowth of his "African Period" (Les Demoiselles d' Avignon of 1907) came Analytical Cubism (1909-1912), from which sprung Synthetic Cubism (1912-1919), and an almost endless array of other, lesser known "isms" employed by art historians to further compartmentalise and analyse a career that, as it evolved, gradually came to defy analysis.
Color is monochromatic in Analytical Cubism and much of Rahi's works show a restrained use of color.
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