Cubism has tangible goals, we see it only as a means of expressing what we perceive with the eye and the spirit, while utilizing all the possibilities that lie within the natural properties of drawing and colour. That became a source of unexpected joy for us, a fount of discoveries.

 "What is a Cubist? A painter of the Braque-Picasso school." The words of an art-critic printed in 1911, shortly after the opening of the scandal-rife "Salon des Independants", where the Cubists had their own exhibition room. Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were the inventors of a way of painting that followed the dictum of the Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne: "All the shapes of nature can be traced back to the sphere,the cone and the cylinder." But the Cubists did not depict their motifs, as the eye sees them, from one particular perspctive.They broke up their pictures into frontal views, profiles, views from below, above and from the sides, views into the interior - and all this at once.In Parisian artist circles, this revolt against the sentimental and realistic painting of the Impressionists began in 1907, and reached its climax in 1914.In just a few years, pictures were created which would change our visual perception for ever.

A new cognitive order?

1907

PABLO PICASSO -- Les Demoiselles d"Avignon

PABLO PICASSO -- Three Women

1908

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Large Nude

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Houses in L"Estaque

PABLO PICASSO -- Fruit Bowl and Bread on a Table

1909

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Castle at La Roche-Guyon

PABLO PICASSO -- Reservoir at Horta, Horta de Ebro

PABLO PICASSO -- Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Violin and Palette

PABLO PICASSO -- Head of a Woman (Fernande)

FERNAND LEGER -- Nudes in the Forest

1910

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Woman with a Mandolin

PABLO Pl CASSO -- Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Bottle and Fishes

ROBERT DELAUNAY -- The Tower behind Curtains

1911

JUAN GRIS -- Houses in Paris

JEAN METZlNGER -- Tea Time

HENRI LE FAUCONNIER -- The Huntsman

1912

PABLO PICASSO -- Maquette for Guitar

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Bowl of Fruit, Bottle and Glass

ALBERT GLEIZES -- The Cathedral of Chartres

JEAN METZINGER -- The Bathers

FERNAND LEGER -- Smoke

1913

JUAN GRIS -- The Smoker

JUAN GRIS -- The Guitar

PABLO PICASSO -- The Guitar

FERNAND LINGER -- Still-life with Colourful Cylindrical Forms

1914

PABLO PICASSO -- Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc

GEORGES BRAQUE -- Pipe, Glass, Dice and Newspaper

JUAN GRIS -- Tea Cups

FERNAND LEGER -- The Balcony

RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON -- The Great Horse

1915

JUAN GRIS -- The Breakfast

JEAN METZINGER -- Still-life

1917

ALBERT GLEIZES -- In the Port