Cubism, causes and influences The effects of Cubism and Henri Bergson on music and literature Mary Wibberley

Initiated by Picasso and Braque, the Cubist movement has its roots in a turbulent period of history in which much change was occurring. Scientific innovations, technological advances, societal changes and tension caused by world events altered the artist's, the author's and the composer's view of traditional formulae and conventions that dated back to the Renaissance. picture plane stirred experimentation by artists with multiple, simultaneous viewpoints. This artistic revolution coincided with Henri Bergson's philosophy concerning space, temporality, simultaneity and intuition over intellect and rationale. Bergson immensely affected the early modern ideology of the arts. the advent of Cubism. This paper discusses the manner in which these precursors affected Cubism, how cubism affected future art, and addresses the manner in which Bergson's ideologies affected early modernism in art, music and literature.

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