Dedication

Cubism

Cubism is one of the arts forms that I have been trying to develop an appreciation for, with no much luck so far.

Cubism (a name suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909) is a non-objective approach to painting developed originally in France by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906.

Between 1909 and 1911, the analysis of human forms and still lifes (hence the name -Analytical Cubism) led to the creation of a new stylistic system which allowed the artists to transpose the three-dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas. An object, seen from various points of view, could be reconstructed using particular separate "views" which overlapped and intersected. The result of such a reconstruction was a summation of separate temporal moments on the canvas. Picasso called this reorganized form the "sum of destructions," that is, the sum of the fragmentations. Since color supposedly interfered in purely intellectual perception of the form, the Cubist palette was restricted to a narrow, almost monochromatic scale, dominated by grays and browns.

Here is the cubism that I am familiar with [fortunately, never had to experience it first hand (knock on wood!)]

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Demotivator

యధా రాజా తధా ప్రజా!

Source: E-mail from Phil (my ex-boss); original source unknown.