For more than a century, modern art has moved from one “ism” to another: Impressionism, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and more.

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... This paved the way for Cubist artists to develop a style which attempted to show a different kind of reality, where it was possible ...

Cubism was the hot new thing when the movement emerged in the Paris art world in the first decade of the twentieth century—baffling to some, fresh and exciting for most.