Cubism is an artistic movement that emerged in the twentieth century, in the plastic arts, having as main founders Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and having expanded to literature and poetry through the influence of writers like John dos Passos and Vladimir Maiakovski. Les demoiselles d'Avignon ", by Picasso, 1907 is known as the initial landmark of cubism. In it, references to African masks, which inspired the initial phase of cubism, together with the work of Paul Cézanne, are evident.
an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
