Cubism
In the 1900, the Eastman Kodak company introduced a low priced, point and shoot, hand-held camera, called the brownie camera. Artists were free to express themselves with paint instead of recording the image. The cameras could do their jobs now. Artists were free to express themselves, Society began seeing things from a fresh perspective.
Artists working in paint were beginning to interest themselves in all new creations in order to survive the competition. The 'cubists' were trying to overthrow the existing order and to explore spatial relationships, free of restraint.
Between 1907 and 1914, the 'cubists' were actively experimenting. This brief period was revolutionary. George Braque, inventor of cubism. Braque and Picasso worked together ( for Cezanne to cubism). Cézanne's painting was that he did not try to deny the two-dimensional quality of a paintings surface. Photography had begun to replace painting as the tool for documenting the age
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