Cubism is a style in art history. It emerged from an avant-garde movement in painting from 1906 in France. Its most important founders are Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Other representatives are Juan Gris and the Puteaux group, in particular Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay, to whom Orphism goes back.
Analytical and synthetic cubism developed from so-called early cubism. Cubism replaced Fauvism in France. Cubism did not have its own theory or manifesto. Together with Fauvism, Cubism ushered in Classical Modernism. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the movement began to dissolve.
From today's perspective, Cubism represents the most revolutionary innovation in 20th century art. Cubism created a new order of thought in painting. The bibliography on Cubism is more extensive than on any other style in modern art. The influence of Cubist works on subsequent styles was very great.