Cuboism

Cuboism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

Cuboism has ‘three main ingredients – geometricity, simultaneity (multiple views) and passage’. Artists tackle the ‘fourth dimension’ which is why cuboism pieces often feature the same subject from a variety of angles – it’s a quest for meaning or understanding, pointing out the world is not how it seems.