Jcl Ancient

Description: Although native cultures have always produced arts containing abstract elements, today's perception of abstract art dates back to 1910, when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism, which within half a decade, led to the pure abstract art created by Piet Mondrian and Russian styles such as constructivism and suprematism. While cubism... ( +expand to view full text )

Description: Although native cultures have always produced arts containing abstract elements, today's perception of abstract art dates back to 1910, when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism, which within half a decade, led to the pure abstract art created by Piet Mondrian and Russian styles such as constructivism and suprematism. While cubism and the styles that preceded it, such as post-impressionism, were partly based on native art that contained abstract elements (see for instance Picasso's black period), in cubism, for the first time in art history, artists began to paint abstract art as a result of a deliberate artistic and philosophical development.