The art style Cubism, created between 1907 and 1914 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, focused on a rejection of traditional form and structure.  Instead of following in the footsteps of classical painters with paintings imitating nature and landscapes, Cubist’s opted to emphasize the two dimensional nature of a canvas with bold, straight lines and strict shapes arranged to make up an object, much like the imagists opted for clear cut details in their description of objects in writing.  In both Cubism and Imagism, every subject is broken down to its most basic elements in its description. 

Works Cited

Gris, Juan. “Portrait of Pablo Picasso.” Wikimedia Commons, January - February 1912, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Gris_-_Portrait_of_Pablo_Picasso_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.

Rewald, Sabine. “Cubism.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. October 2004.  https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm.