The early 20th century ushered in a new technological era: automobiles, trains, airplanes, and the telegraph, changed the way we perceived and interpreted the world. This new modern era, as it would later be called, had a profound impact on the arts and architecture. Gone were the old romanticism and symbolism that had dominated the 19th century previously. Instead, artists around the world have begun to incorporate the emerging geometries of technology into their art. Cubism, Futurism, Fauvism, non-objective art, and the International Style are all examples of art forms and styles that adapted the abstract geometries afforded by technology. Cubism is a movement of art forms that helped shape the art of the early 20th century and the modernist era. Two of the most famous leaders of Cubism were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Picasso, a craftsman of Spanish origin, wanted to express an art form that broke free from the tradition of what should be presented on canvas. Picasso realized his vision by presenting his objects geometrically; which is broken down, analyzed and reassembled by abstractly recomposing the object in geometric patterns. Influenced by African art, "Picasso's main assault on tradition was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a large painting of five naked women." (Fiero, p.6) As if developing a new reality or dimension in space, Picasso used colors and shapes to rearrange and present the naked women in an abstract manner that left the viewer to use their imagination to interpret what is displayed on the canvas. This style will later be refined and labeled Analytical Cubism. Having moved to France from his native Spain, Picasso began collaborating with fellow French craftsman Georges Braque. Braque, helped develop the second... half of the paper... instead he made it his philosophy to express the abstract using geometric shapes and simple colors to tickle the viewer, as is evident in the painting simply called Tree. The third known artist and unlike the previous two who descended from the Soviet Union, Mondrian was a Dutch artist, but like his Russian contemporaries, he also wished to move away from representational art and move towards an abstract use of geometry to archive transcendental purity. One such painting evident of this abstract purity is "Composition with large red, yellow, black, gray and blue plane" (Fiery, p.19 Fig, 32.19). Mondrian's contribution doesn't end there, he helps develop the movement called De Still or style which would trace its influence not only to paintings, but to furniture as in today's Ikea furniture stores and even architecture. Works cited The humanistic tradition sixth edition