Fauvism and Cubism
«During his Fauve years Matisse often painted landscapes in the south of France during the summer and worked up ideas developed there into larger compositions upon his return to Paris. Joy of Live, the second of his important imaginary compositions, is typical of these. He used a landscape he had painted in Collioure to provide the setting for the idyll, but it is also influenced by ideas drawn from Watteau, Poussin, Japanese woodcuts, Persian miniatures, and 19th century Orientalist images of harems. The scene is made up of independent motifs arranged to form a complete composition. The massive painting and its shocking colors received mixed reviews at the Salon des Indépendants. Critics noted its new style -- broad fields of color and linear figures, a clear rejection of Paul Signac's celebrated Pointillism.»
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-fauvism.htm
Georges Braque is mostly known from his cubist paintings, some of them very similar to those of his friend Picasso, both accomplished to break imagery into dissected parts, a geometric and simultaneous perspective feature characterized their paintings of this period.
The Joy of Life is a coloured landscape with nudes, hot colours express the emotional joy and pleasure.
See article on the painting - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-matisse-henri.htm
Cubism
The artists abandoned perspective, which had been used to depict space since the Renaissance, and they also turned away from the realistic modeling of figures.
Cubists explored open form, piercing figures and objects by letting the space flow through them, blending background into foreground, and showing objects from various angles. Some historians have argued that these innovations represent a response to the changing experience of space, movement, and time in the modern world. This first phase of the movement was called Analytic Cubism.
In the second phase of Cubism, Synthetic Cubists explored the use of non-art materials as abstract signs. Their use of newspaper would lead later historians to argue that, instead of being concerned above all with form, the artists were also acutely aware of current events, particularly WWI.
Cubism paved the way for non-representational art by putting new emphasis on the unity between a depicted scene and the surface of the canvas. These experiments would be taken up by the likes of Piet Mondrian, who continued to explore their use of the grid, abstract system of signs, and shallow space.
Cubism was influenced by african art, the primitive masks.
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-cubism.htm
Cubism reflects in Poetry, though repetition and abstract language -i.e. Gertrude Stein's and Appolinaire poems. It reflects in music, in the chaotic rythms of Stravinsky.
Gertrude Stein's poetry is experimental and based on repetition, one of the examples is the poem he she dedicated to her friend Picasso «If I told him - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55215 (one can hear her voice)
Apollinaires calligrammes are famous, a visual innovation of displaying a poem.
