analytical_cubism has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) the early phase of cubism

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

It is true that his first collage looks more Analytical than Braque 's , which would confirm the date he assigns it .

But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as_well_as of typography ; and moreover , he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical_Cubism as far back as the end of 1910 .

In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself .

When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical_Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large , dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage , they had to coalesce - become `` synthesized '' - into larger planar shapes themselves simply in_order to maintain the integrity of the picture_plane .

Analytical_Cubism came to an end in the collage , but not conclusively ; nor did Synthetic_Cubism fully begin there .

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cubism

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