Cubism was a result of the collaboration
between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Between 1908 and 1912 their "immediate
influences are said to be Tribal Art" and "the
work of Paul Cezanne."
Although these influences were later disputed by Braque their work no
matter who or what their influences were caused "immense
creative explosion" which had an effect on art through the 20th
century.
The essential concept of Cubism is that the inner
essense of a object is be shown through "multiple points of view
simultaneously."
By the end of World War 1 Cubism had begun to lose it's attraction. A
lasting result of Cubistic influenece were movements such as: "Orphism,
Purism, Precisionism, Futurism, Constructicism" and in a small but
influential way, Expressionism. (Anthony Oliver)