Cubism is one of the early twentieth century artistic movements that paved the way toward abstract art. It was developed mainly in the field of painting and started between 1907 and 1908, when the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, influenced by the geometric trend of Paul Cézanne and constructive firmness George Seurat began to analyze the objects from different points of view and break into lines and planes. Thus the work became a two-dimensional composition. This first stage, which was until 1911, is known by the name of analytic cubism. He continued musical cubism. During this period the plans are fragmented and multiplied, the nuances were reduced to various shades of one color and the objects disappeared entirely from the work, with the exception of some signs such as ropes or letters. The painting was transformed into an abstract painting. He was followed by Synthetic Cubism, which lasted beyond 1930, and was characterized by the need to reconstruct the objects through defined planes of color, which became unrealistic images of signs in play of forms, textures and colors.
Still life table, by Georges Braque, corresponds to synthetic cubism.
In addition to Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris noted painters, Ferdinand Léger, Jean Metzinger, and sculptors Alexander Archipenko and Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
Cubist aesthetics incorporated elements of the real world: different textures simulating wood of a table or a floor mosaic, letters and collage with different materials.