Editing Rubik's Cube (section)

===Rubik's Cubism===
Beyond the Folk Art of the 1980s and 1990s, and the simple replication of a Rubik's Cube in oversized form, artists have developed a pointillist art style using the cubes. Rubik's Cube Art a.k.a. '''Rubik's Cubism''' or RubikCubism makes use of a standard Rubik's Cube, a popular puzzle toy of the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.space-invaders.com/rubikcubism_.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307005404/http://www.space-invaders.com/rubikcubism_.html|url-status=dead|title=Rubikcubism|archivedate=7 March 2012}}</ref>

The earliest recorded artworks appear to have been created by Fred Holly, a legally blind man in his 60s in the mid-1980s.<ref name="holly.wordthunder.com"/> These early pieces focus on geometrics and colour patterns. There does not appear to be other recorded art pieces until the mid-1990s by cube aficionados involved in the puzzle and game industry.<ref name="playagaingames.com"/>

[[File:Mosaic40percent.JPG|thumb|Pete Fecteau's "Dream Big" piece in the making]]
The Folk art form reached another level of its evolution with the development and maturity into a Pop art form consisting of pointillist Cube Art renderings. The street artist who uses the alias "[[Invader (artist)|Invader]]" or "Space Invader" started exhibiting pointillist pieces, including one of a man behind a desk and Mario Bros, using Rubik's Cube in June 2005 in an exhibition named 'Rubik Cubism' at Sixspace in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.space-invaders.com/RUBIKCUBISM__.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303165549/http://www.space-invaders.com/RUBIKCUBISM__.html|url-status=dead|title=RUBIKCUBISM / A LOGICAL EXHIBITION OF INVADER AT SIXSPACE / LA. 2005<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=3 March 2012}}</ref> Prior to this exhibition the artist had used Rubik's Cubes to create giant Space Invaders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.space-invaders.com/rs2.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313200939/http://www.space-invaders.com/rs2.html|url-status=dead|title=Rubik Space By Invader<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=13 March 2012}}</ref> Another artist includes Robbie Mackinnon of Toronto Canada<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cubeworks.ca/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110403071310/http://www.cubeworks.ca/index.php|url-status=dead|title=Home|archivedate=3 April 2011|website=Cubeworks}}</ref> with earliest published work in 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.twoguysfromtoronto.com/blog/2008/03/22/rubiks-cube-art/|title=Twoguysfromtoronto.com|website=www.twoguysfromtoronto.com|access-date=27 August 2023|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423133830/http://www.twoguysfromtoronto.com/blog/2008/03/22/rubiks-cube-art/|url-status=dead}}</ref> who claims to have developed his pointillist Cube Art years earlier while being a teacher in China. Robbie Mackinnon's work has been exhibited in Ripley's Believe it or Not and focussed on using pop-art, while Space Invader has exhibited his Cube Art alongside mosaic Space Invaders in commercial and public galleries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.space-invaders.com/exhibitions.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223203056/http://www.space-invaders.com/exhibitions.html|url-status=dead|title=Exhibitions<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=23 February 2012}}</ref>

In 2010 artist Pete Fecteau created "Dream Big",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://petefecteau.com/2011/04/15/dream-big/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305071922/http://petefecteau.com/2011/04/15/dream-big/|url-status=dead|archivedate=5 March 2012|title=Dream Big « Pete Fecteau }}</ref> a tribute to ''[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'' using 4,242 officially licensed Rubik's Cubes. Fecteau also worked with the organization You Can Do The Rubik's Cube<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youcandothecube.com/cube-mosaics/|title=You Can Do The Cube Official Site|access-date=22 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126154840/http://www.youcandothecube.com/cube-mosaics/|archive-date=26 January 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> to create two separate guides designed to teach school children how to create Rubik's Cube mosaics from templates which he also created.