“Not only did we try to displace reality; reality was no longer in the object. Reality was in the painting.” Pablo Picasso

Cubism depicts every object by breaking it down into geometric planes, thereby seeking to create the most complex possible representation of reality’s three dimensions. The painter develops the proportions and composition of a Cubist painting – much like laboratory research – through continuous measurements and experimentation. Like ancient Egyptian art, Cubist painting employs the most characteristic, flattened view of a given form and, generally, breaks the depicted subject down into even smaller units. When the new movement emerged in 1907–1908, a previously unseen, exciting style began to take shape on the canvases of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which ultimately revolutionized the fundamentals of image-making.