What is the difference between Analytic and Synthetic Cubism? What is the overall impact of Cubism? Use examples to illustrate your points.

Analytic cubism involved portraying an object or objects
from many different points of view at once in an attempt to depict space in a different
way.  An example of Analytic cubism is Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’
Avignon.

Synthetic cubism was more about
breaking an object or space into parts that could be represented with varying textures
and shapes that would ultimately engage the viewer in a kind of game to figure out the
reference and meaning behind each part.  An example of Synthetic cubism would be Georges
Braque’s Fruit Dish and Cards.

In
reference to the change over from Analytic to Synthetic cubism Picasso is quoted in
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages (10th edition), as saying,  “we
didn’t any longer want to fool the eye; we wanted to fool the mind ”  (page
1050.)

The overall impact of cubism was giving the artist
the power to portray reality in whatever way he or she wanted.  What Braque and Picasso
did with the cubist movement was more than just artistic self expression.  It involved a
different method of perceiving the world.