They wanted the experience of looking at a painting to be like looking through a window onto a real landscape, interior, person or object. Since the Renaissance in the fifteenth century, European artists had aimed to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in their drawings and paintings.
How does it work? What were Braque and Picasso's reasons for turning their back on traditional techniques? How did the cubists develop their new style? The illusion of space The mandora, the objects behind it, and the background all seem to sit on the same level – on the flat surface of the picture, with no foreground or background, and no illusion of receding space.Ĭubism looks very different to lots of other styles of painting. Although there are lighter and darker tones within the painting, and these do sometimes create the appearance of three-dimensions (a dark tone is used for the side of the mandora making it look like a solid object) the tone is not always used in this way and sometimes seems confusing.
He has fragmented the whole image into tiny flat geometric shapes so the edges of the objects are less clear Although the shape of the mandora (a stringed instrument similar to a lute) is fairly clear, and if we look closely we can make out a bottle behind it, there is very little difference between the way Braque has painted the objects and the space around them.
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