ABSTRACT
The abstract character of Analytical Cubism it remained throughout closely linked to the modified Impressionism of Cezanne. The beginnings of Cubism followed close upon the Fauve revolt of 1905. Georges Braque was at first a member of the Fauve group and worked under the influence of Matisse and Friesz until 1907. Cubism in the early years developed under the mixed influence of Negro sculpture and Cezanne. Pablo Picasso and Braque had met during the winter of 1907–1908 and had, within a year, established the collaboration which was to carry them through the formative years of Cubism. Picasso and Braque and the other Cubists kept at first to conventional subjects, figures, life, landscapes, but Delaunay broke a new path by a series of dynamic, dramatic studies of architecture of which the most famous are St. Severin of 1909 and the Eiffel Tower of 1911.
