Still Life with Bread and Fruit Bowl, 1909

       The term ‘Cubism’ was used for the first time by an art critic describing landscapes by Braque in which houses, trees and background were all in the form of cubes.  This innovation took place gradually.  First came Analytic Cubism, the breaking apart and ‘analysis’ of objects; then came Synthetic Cubism - collages, papiers colles and constructions.

 

Still Life with Bread and Fruit Bowl, 1909

       In this painting all the objects are reduced to simple, geometric forms - cylinders, comes, spheres.  Earlier, when a table was depicted frontally, the yop of the table would not be visible.  Here, however, Picasso painted it as if it were seen form slightly above, thus breaking all the laws of perspective.

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