These sublets of artistic form include: Period of Time Type of sublet of Artistic Form 1880 - 1920 Post-Impressionism 1890 - 1920 Expressionism 1903 - 1907 Fauvism 1905 - 1939 Cubism 1916 - 1922 Dada 1920 - 1940 Bauhaus 1920 - 1940 Harlem Renaissance 1924 - 1930 Surrealism Post-Impression: During this period of modernism, the work of the artists revealed a freely expressive use of color and form. ... Cubism: Cubism can be defined as either analytical or synthetic. In analytical cubist painting, the object was "taken apart" and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes....

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Together they created a new style of art, which was later referred to as Cubism. There were three basic stages of Cubism. The first stage, called Cezannesque Cubism, basically consisted of a few features created by piecing many different geometric shapes together to create an image. The next stage, called Analytic Cubism, started around 1910, and consisted of less shapes with less simplicity. ... Around 1912, the third stage of Cubism appeared, called Synthetic Cubism. ...

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Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. ... To replace these they employed an analytic system in which the three-dimensional subject (usually still life) was fragmented and redefined within a shallow plane or within several interlocking and often transparent planes (infoplease1). Picasso and Braque worked together closely during the next few years (1909-12)--the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way--and they developed what came to be known as Analytical Cubism. ... This is where we get the term of cubism in this stage...

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