Cubist Lilies (470 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle)

Cubism as a painting style was developed in the early 1900s by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.Picasso and Braque wanted to show the whole structure of objects in their paintings without using techniques such as perspective or graded shading to make them look realistic. They wanted to show things as they are – not just what they look like.Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is the first painting to be called Cubist. The name was popularized about a year later when an art critic, looking at one of Braque's paintings, said it looked like it was made of cubes.The new style's revolutionary nature forever changed how people thought about painting. It also influenced other art forms of the time, like sculpture and poetry.In early Cubist paintings, the artists broke down objects into basic geometric shapes such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones, using the shapes to show many sides of the original object. This technique, known as Analytical Cubism, involved the deconstruction of the sub