This was encapsulated in the period co-founded by Picasso and Braque, known as Analytical Cubism (1908-1912), which is exemplified in Picasso's Girl With A Mandolin and Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) and Braque's Violin and Palette (1909). ... Although primarily concerned with the art of form, Cubism was still secondarily an art of representation. ... Cubism had qualified as a unique vehicle of communication and language through its alternative method of representing the external world. ... Cubism certainly transcends the external world as it questions the approach to viewin...

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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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