In the new age of the machine, the Eiffel Tower was a structure that became a sort of monument for the people, giving them a different view of the world, as everything previously had been one-dimensional and at one level. In terms of making revolutionary approaches, Cubism also offered a new vantage point of height. The movement emphasises the notion that three dimensions cannot be shown through rendering reality as it is, rather, it requires the qualities of forms to be disfigured and rearranged.
Ultimately, Cubism is distinguished by ‘not an art of painting, but an art of conception’, referring to the concept of reality, or one that has been fabricated in order to express three dimensions. French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) argued that it was due to the artist’s intention ‘…to find a pleasure other than the one which the spectacle of natural things could just as well provide’ that literal representation was no longer of importance. Rather than a literal representation of a subject, this abstraction involved an emphasis on the qualities of space, mass and volume the concept of which was considered a ‘revolutionary approach to the depiction. As it was the principle of drawing, spatial perceptions were demonstrated through geometric figures, leading to an abstraction of what viewers have been previously taught to see. The qualities of interiority were also challenged by Cubism, as people’s sensory experiences changed visually.īreaking with the traditional pictorial technique of one-point perspective, the Cubist movement offered a new reality of space one that was centred around human experience. On the other hand, it could be said that rather than introducing new interiors, Cubism examined the notion of space as multi-dimensional and multi-durational.
As a result of artists no longer reflecting actual subjects and observations, it was common for people to reject the changes in art, as there was a new reality being introduced to the world and it wasn’t easily understood.
Developed in the early part of the twentieth century, Cubism introduced a reconstruction of space and the ideas of space being comprised of geometric and mathematical forms.
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