Cubism?
Some answers, by Krajnc
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"To me, the most interesting aspect of Cubism
was the concept of seeing landscapes and objects
from various angles simultaneously.
Separating rather than melding the two different images sent to the brain by the right and the left eye.
And using the brain itself as the third eye.
There's no consistent light source.
Background and foreground merge in presenting the total picture."
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"Looking at a given thing from multiple viewpoints,
then combining them in one image, is really a timeless idea,
rethought by the Cubists:
in the Middle Ages, artists would show several impressions of a scene,
separate in time, on one canvas, to narrate an experience,
to mark the passage of time and to unravel a story."
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"Even further back historically, the Egyptians used
a kind of "cubist" style, when they depicted their gods,
kings and animals
from the front AND the sides in their reliefs at the temples."
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"Albrecht Dürer, never thought of as a Cubist, drew images from different locations and put them together to create the illusions of a realistic landscape, one that pleased him."
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"And 'CUBISM' may be even more valid today, at the turn of another century. With millions of bits of information modern technology puts at our fingertips, we have learned to look and "see" differently. Our thoughts are rarely linear these days. We analyze and assemble - very much like those early Cubists did, or were supposed to do - take apart and regroup those bits and pieces to form a complex and individul final picture of a given subject. It's just not enough any more to see a melon from the front only. We want to see the inside, the underside, the back!"
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