![]() But the Centre Pompidou’s exhibit makes clear that they didn’t launch the movement alone: they owed much of their success to a young, relatively unknown art dealer, gallery owner, and book publisher named Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Picasso and his close colleague, George Braque, are widely considered to be the inventors of Cubism. In the first decade of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso synthesized these considerably diverse elements into a budding Cubism, first glimpsed in his experimental painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) - which is not included in the show - and then in his “Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro” (1909), a painting of the Catalonian town of Horta de San Joan. Partial installation view of Le Cubisme at Centre Pompidou © Centre Pompidou In his late paintings, Cézanne sought to explore the workings of binocular vision by rendering slightly different visual perceptions of the same phenomena, thus illustrating how each of our two eyes see things from slightly different perspectives. It then proposes Picasso’s fetishizing approach to Iberian sculpture the magical sub-Saharan African Art that Paul Guillaume brought to Paris the “primitivistic” proto-modernism of Paul Gauguin and, most importantly, Paul Cézanne’s desire to capture the tilted intricacies of human perception. Le Cubisme offers a comprehensive overview of the movement’s history, starting with the early proto-Cubism seeds that germinated in Henri Rousseau’s painted jungles. Featuring 300 chronologically displayed masterful works, including Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait of Gertrude Stein” (1906) and Fernand Léger’s “The Wedding” (1911-12), the exhibition makes an argument for Cubism as a revolutionary movement with a far-reaching influence on architecture, literature, philosophy, and the art historical events of Futurism, Dada and Suprematism. PARIS - To visit Le Cubisme at the Centre Pompidou - France’s first exhibition devoted to Cubism since 1953 - is to confront modern and contemporary art’s holy of holies. Pablo Picasso, “Sheet Music and Guitar” (1912) 41,5 x 48 cm Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. ![]()
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