Cubism at the Reina Sofia Museum

Cubism at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,  Madrid. 

Long queues at the entrance of this museum, as you can see in the photograph, it took us quite a while to get in. The exhibition space is huge, divided into small sections, some of which don't always make sense. There were quite a few rooms dedicated to Cubism.

Cubism was a highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century, created principally by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modelling and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories that art should imitate nature. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour and space. Instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects.

Jose Moreno Villa, Still Life, 1927

Manuel Angeles Ortiz, Open Balcony and Plate with Fish, 1924

Juan Gris, The Musucian's Table, 1926

Salvador Dali, Still Live, 1926

Andre Lhote, Cubist Still Life, Bottle and Glass, 1917

Andre Lhote, The Red Jug, 1917

Albert Gleizes, Composition with Guitar, 1921

Diego Rivera, Beer Glass, 1917

Maria Blanchard, Woman with Guitar, 1917

Juan Gris, Grapes, 1916

Juan Gris, Portrait of Madame Josette Gris, 1916

Juan Gris, Open Window, 1921

Jacques Lipschitz, Sailor with Guitar, 1917

Fernand Leger, Mural Painting, 1924

Amandee Ozenfant,  Reds, Rome, 1925

Fernande Leger, Still Life with Lamp, 1914

Juan Gris, Violin and Guitar, 1913

Juan Gris, Guitar on the Table, 1913

Pablo Picasso, Woman's Head, (Fernande), 1909

Pablo Picasso,  Fruit Bowl, 1910

Pablo Picasso, Dead Birds, 1912

Georges Braque, Bottle and Fruit, 1911

Georges Braque, Cards and Dice, 1914

Salvador Dali, Cubist Self-Portrait, 1923

Daniel Vazquez Diaz, The Sleeping Factory, 1925

Rafael Barradas, Vibrationist Still life, 1919

Rafael Alberti, Composition, 1921

Sonia Delaunay + Blaise Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France, 1913