Two art movements gained considerable prominence at the beginning of the 20th century. Painters such as Pablo Picasso and Tristan Tzara were at the vanguard of cubism and Dadaism, respectively. Cubism and Dadaism can be viewed from both an aesthetic and historical context, and Dadaism was modern art's response to the cubist movement.
Inspired largely by the work of Paul Cezanne, cubism breaks down three-dimensional objects, and represents them geometrically on a single plane. Furthermore, cubism stresses the representation of multiple viewpoints. Historically, the cubist movement is extremely important because it rejected the practice -- as in realism --
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