Image Credit: Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Taken together, these elements opened a metaphorical window through which a scene could be fixed in perpetuity, making painting the main instrument for visually recording existence until the invention of photography. The result was a tightly rendered surface that heightened the semblance of reality. Concomitantly, the widespread adoption of oil paint, along with glazes and varnishes, allowed light to penetrate through layers of color while keeping the evidence of brushwork to a minimum. Spanning what became known as the Old Master period, this resurrected form of painting was true to nature, combining geometrical perspective or its atmospheric variant (which evoked the sense of distance disappearing in a haze) and chiaroscuro (i.e., modeling with gradations of light) to give form and space the illusion of three-dimensionality.
Sculpture played a part, but Cubism was largely concerned with painting, and more specifically with undoing a paradigm that, as noted earlier, was based on a rediscovery of classical aesthetics that had been lost for a millennium after the fall of Rome. Copyright © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.Īs a style Cubism was relatively short-lived, cresting after about 10 years as its lessons were absorbed or supplanted. Image Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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