It provided the catalyst to 20 th Century art that the I5th Century Italian Renaissance provided to the I6th Century Italian High Renaissance. Cubism was the joint invention of Picasso and Braque. Inspired by Cezanne, the Cubists developed a new way of depicting space which involved multiple and mixed perspectives.
Cubism lead to abstraction and necessitated a new way of looking at art.
The first phase, Analytical Cubism was more intellectual than its more decorative second phase, Synthetic Cubism. Analytical Cubism is the first developmental phase of Cubism. Fast Facts Collage was an outgrowth of Analytical Cubism where reality is found in the overlapping relationships of interdependent views or events. The overlay of posters on walls, and modern signs created a layered cityscape that resulted in a visual change for everyone. Influenced by what he saw around him, Picasso pasted various real-life materials not normally associated with each other, e.g. bits of paper, onto a flat surface to create an arrangement.