Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian peninsula, Cubismthe most influential style of the early 20th centuryoffered European artists unfamiliar, nonclassical ways to represent form and space.
This program examines: Juan Gris The Breakfast Table (1915), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris Marcel Duchamps Sad Young Man on a Train (1911), from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Robert Delaunays Champ de Mars (1911), from The Art Institute of Chicago Sonia Delaunays Electric Prisms (1914), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris Kazimir Malevichs An Englishman in Moscow (1913-14), from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Umberto Boccionis Farewells (1911), from the Museum of Modern Art, New York (60 minutes)
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