Movements in Modern Art: Cubism

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Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the art of the twentieth century, was also one of the most complex. Divided between the annual public exhibition and the emerging network of private galleries, between French and immigrant artists, it was also the product of the decade before the outbreak of war in 1914. Behind the cliched image of 'la belle epoque' France was torn by inter-class and international tensions, caught between excitement over the experience of modernity and anxiety about its consequences.