Picasso and Braque go to the movies

Born at the same time as cinema itself and both avid cinephiles, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were pioneering figures in the world of modern art, with the Cubist movement they helped to establish changing the face of modern art forever. Picasso and Braque Go To the Movies examines the possible aesthetic link between the advent of the cinema and the Cubist movement.

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"This film advances an interesting thesis: if the static visual arts affected early cinema's vocabulary, did moving pictures inspire Cubism's two towering giants, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque? Cinema and Cubism were born during the birth of modernity itself, and filmmaker Arne Glimcher argues that films, from the earliest days of Thomas Edison and the Lumière Brothers, were a crucial formative influence on Modern painting, particularly on Picasso and Braque. The movies' revolutionary portrayal of time, space, and motion was the engine behind the modernist revolution in fine art. Through interviews with art historians, practicing plastic and visual artists, poets, and filmmakers, it traces the effects of technological revolution--specifically the invention of aviation and the creation of cinema--and their interdependent influence on the art dubbed Modern."
"Born at the same time as cinema itself and both avid cinephiles, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were pioneering figures in the world of modern art, with the Cubist movement they helped to establish changing the face of modern art forever. Picasso and Braque Go To the Movies examines the possible aesthetic link between the advent of the cinema and the Cubist movement."
"Born at the same time as cinema itself and both avid cinephiles, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were pioneering figures in the world of modern art, with the Cubist movement they helped to establish changing the face of modern art forever. Picasso and Braque Go To the Movies examines the possible aesthetic link between the advent of the cinema and the Cubist movement."@en
"Explores the influence of technological innovations, particularly cinema, on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque."@en