2. Houses at l’Estaque (1908)
Houses at l’Estaque is a landscape painted by the Georges Braque and is often considered one of the first Cubist paintings, although some art historians consider it a Proto-Cubist painting. An influential French art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, in his review of the Braque’s exhibition, which included the Houses at l’Estaque, said that “Braque is a daring man who despises form, reducing everything, places and figures and houses, to geometric schemas, to cubes”. Pointing out cubes, this review hinted how should the at the time new forming style/movement later be called. This painting was definitely one the most important steps in forming the movement and is therefore rightfully on our list.
1. Guernica (1937)
Guernica is without a shadow of a doubt the most famous Picasso’s painting, and even though it belongs to his surrealist period, it is still infused with his recognizable cubist style, and because of it, it deserves to be ranked as number one on our list of 10 most famous Cubist paintings.
