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Pablo Picasso, The Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1907 The resulting picture is a mosaic of shifting and fragmented planes, as if the subject were being viewed in a fractured mirror. The object is no longer seen from a fixed position in time and space, but is rather seen from multiple viewpoints.Ĭubism therefore destroyed once and for all the Renaissance conception of the painting as a “window.” After Cubism, painting was conceived as a flat surface upon which the artist arranges elements. Rather than represent things as a fixed object in space (say a cup), the Cubists fragmented three-dimensional forms into their two-dimensional components (remember Cézanne?) and rearranged them on the canvas (so we would see our cup from the top, the side, and maybe even the bottom all at once).

#CUBISM PHOTO FREE#

The Cubists wanted to break free from this old-fashioned, static way of seeing and invent a new way of representing experience as unfolding over time and through space. According to the “old way” of painting, objects were arranged on an imaginary picture-stage in relation to a fixed viewpoint in time and space, using such familiar devices as chiaroscuro, foreshortening, and linear perspective. The first phase of Cubism is called “Analytic Cubism.” It involved a complete re-analysis of how we “see,” and how we represent what we see on canvas. Inspired by the shifting planes and ambiguous spatial relations of Cézanne’s paintings, Cubism represented a deeply intellectual analysis of form and space, and the invention of an entirely new way of seeing. Cubism was the creation of two artists – Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso – who worked closely together between 1908-1914.

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