Which early 20th-century art movement, pioneered by Picasso and Braque, depicted subjects using geometric shapes from multiple viewpoints?
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Cubism
Cubism revolutionized European painting by breaking objects into distinct planes to show them from several perspectives at once. This movement was heavily influenced by African tribal masks and Paul Cézanne’s idea that all nature can be reduced to the cylinder, sphere, and cone.
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