The first exhibition devoted to Cubism in France since 1953 illustrates how the radical art movement shattered western pictorial conventions.

Le Cubisme offers a comprehensive overview of the movement’s history, starting with the early proto-Cubism seeds that germinated in Henri Rousseau’s painted jungles. It then proposes Picasso’s fetishizing approach to Iberian sculpture; the magical sub-Saharan African Art that Paul Guillaume brought to Paris; the “primitivistic” proto-modernism of Paul Gauguin; and, most importantly, Paul Cézanne’s desire to capture the tilted intricacies of human perception. In his late paintings, Cézanne sought to explore the workings of binocular vision by rendering slightly different visual perceptions of the same phenomena, thus illustrating how each of our two eyes see things from slightly different perspectives.

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