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Picasso, Braque, And Henry David Thoreau

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In 1910 artist were growing closer to total attrition with movements such as expressionism. Progressive artist in these movements rebelled against the traditions of what art was meant to be that was set forth by the Renaissance era. With artist such as Kandinsky choosing not to represent the “visible world” with his art and opting to have his views grapple with more conceptual ideas of a spiritual world. Also during this time Matisse and the other Fauves liberated themselves of the restrictions naturalism put on how artist used color, line, form, and space. While the Expressionist and other event-guard movements question the conventions of the Renaissance Cubist were conscious of these ideas. Before the rise of Cubism Albert Einstein published his infamous theory of relativity and his ideas about time …show more content…

Similarly, the concepts of the nature of consciousness that Henri Bergson published in Matter and Memory states that you cannot experience a single moment in time; these thoughts on perception lead cubist to challenge how reality was understood and represented. Picasso and Braque played with these concepts heavily as seen in earlier works such as Picasso’s Two Nudes where he creates a space where the same figure is existing twice in one plane, this is done by changing his perspective several times thought out the duration of creating the piece. Pieces such as these lead into the first era of Cubism, Analytic Cubism. This era challenges the Renaissance’s linear perspective something still taught to art students today. This technique allows artist to render spacial recession on to a two-demential surface and create the illustrious of a three-dimensional space. But, Picasso and Braque know this is not how we naturally observe things. They use different techniques to represent time and space and

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