Picasso vs. Braque Cubism Challenge

This game is our version of "Tic Tac Toe." You play as Picasso, and select the square where you want to place your cubist painting by clicking on it. Braque will then place his painting in another square. The first artist to get three squares in a row wins. To learn more about the real Picasso vs. Braque cubism challenge, scroll down below the game to read more!

Cubism was an art movement, and a style of painting, that originated in Paris, France, around 1907. The main objective of the artists painting in a cubist style was to show that they had found "a new way of seeing." Most Cubist works include several different perspectives of the subject or object, all shown together. The Cubist artists were inspired by African masks which were very distorted and unrealistic. Also around this time the camera was becoming more popular, which could be used to capture an image exactly. The availability of photographic images further propelled the cubist style because the artists wanted to show that they could create an image that the camera could not duplicate.

Two of the most important cubist painters were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They knew each other well, visited each other's studio, and worked to refine and advance the idea of cubism. At the time, both artists signed their cubist paintings only on the back of the canvas, to keep the works anonymous, which allowed Picasso's paintings to compete with Braque's on a purely artistic level.

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