Spanning between 1907 and 1914, Cubism developed in Paris at the turn of the 20th century as a radical movement that broke away from the well-established traditions governing contemporary art.Pioneered by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Cubism developed in reaction to Picasso’s shocking 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
When viewing Cubist paintings, no realistic scenes were portrayed as artists chose to explore the space in which the figures and objects existed instead.
As Cubism directly challenged the Renaissance’s depiction of space, many artists experimented with the idea of non-representation in the paintings that were produced.