" Synthetic cubism " is defined as ?
The following extract from , 'The World Backwards ' , gives some impression of the inter-connectedness of culture at the time : ' David Burliuk 's knowledge of modern art movements must have been extremely up-to - date , for the second Knave of Diamonds exhibition , held in January 1912 ( in Moscow ) included not only paintings sent from Munich , but some members of the German Die Brücke group , while from Paris came work by Robert Delaunay , Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger , as well as Picasso .