Cubism

1909, Port en Normandie, George Barques

From the time period 1908-1913 George Barques dabbled in a new study of the effects of light and perspective and dared to question the most standard of artistic conventions. By taking scenes in everyday life Barques would reduce an architectural structure into a geometric form (preferably a cube shape) and play with its shaping to reflect a flat but three-dimensional image. He worked very closely with Pablo Picasso who also adopted a similar cubist style of painting.The comparison art historians make between Picasso and Barques is that Picasso emphasized animation while Barques expressed contemplation.