The Birth of Cubism

In 1908, after Picasso's several trips to La Rue des Bois; Picasso finally formed an artistic kinship with Georges Braque; who – along with Picasso – was the co-founder of Cubism. Picasso's cubism periods were split into two, being the period of analytic cubism, and synthetic cubism. Analytic cubism is characterized by the use of neutral colors, the most common being brown; the two artists would "analyze" the shape of different objects and place them in the center. Synthetic cubism was a development to analytic cubism; in this style Picasso would add pieces or fragments of newspaper pages into his paintings; this was the first time a collage was used in fine art.