Comparison of Cubism

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First, you might choose Cubism as a movement to discuss. Please note how the key concepts underlying Cubism are particular since they suggest that the" essence of an object can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/cubism.html). As you define it further, please note that it was an early 20th-century school of painting and sculpture. It emphasized that subject matter "is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones" (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/cubism).

As you look at the key painters of this genre, you might cite Pablo Picasso as a primary figure. Please note how he emphasized "the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature" (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/cubism).

Because Cubist painters were "not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were seen simultaneously" (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/cubism/).

As you choose a Picasso piece, I like "The Blind Man's Meal." Its theme and symbolism seem to evoke feelings of alienation, despair, and darkness. You might look at how this piece offers ...