What was the significance of Cubism?
Cubism was a revolution in how we perceived and depicted reality. By shattering traditional perspective, we allowed the viewer to engage with the artwork on a more intellectual and experiential level. It acknowledged that our understanding of an object is built from accumulated perceptions over time and from different angles. This offered a more complex and truthful representation of existence than the singular, fixed viewpoint of Renaissance perspective. It was a liberation from illusionism.
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