What are the characteristics of cubism?
First and foremost, for me, the point of view changes depending on the part of the picture you are looking at. Or as the Wikipedia puts it: “In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism’s distinct characteristics.” My old art history teacher put it this way: one way to understand the multiple points of view is to look at Egyptian hieroglyphics (the Egyptians didn’t differentiate between painting or drawing, writing and sculpture. All of those were hieroglyphs). Now the Egyptians believed that in order to live forever you needed a body or image of yourself to live in. So first there
