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The term "Cubism" had its source in a remark by Henri Matisse, who described a painting by Georges Braque as consisting of "little cubes." Picked up and popularized by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles, the term came to mean the fragmentation of forms and abandonment of perspective practised by Picasso and Braque from 1907 on.
At the time, no one could have guessed that Cubism would revolutionize the development of art ? not only in France, but also in Russia and the United States ? nor that its influence would endure until after the Second World War.
The first groups to borrow directly from Cubism were Italian Futurism, English Vorticism, Russian Cubo-Futurism, and the American avant-garde. As 1920 approached, the Dutch movements of Neo-Plasticism and De Stijl, the German Bauhaus movement and Russian Constructivism were all drawing radical conclusions from Cubism, founding their aesthetic approaches on geometry and the ordering of planes in space.
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