Analytic Cubism - Picasso and Braque

In the 19th Century, the visual arts had adhered increasingly closely to a set of fundamental notions of perspective, form and modeling which governed composition, especially of the two dimensional kind. The two-dimensional surface of the canvas was something that had to be overcome; something that the artist could, if he succeeded, completely destroy with his brush and replace with a three-dimensional representation as close to nature as possible.
Although Pablo Picasso and George Braque would not come into contact until several years into the 20th Century, they shared a mutual dissatisfaction towards the legacy that had been left by the Art of the 19th, specifically regarding the staunch rules which governed the transition of three dimensional space onto a two dimensional surface. It is the changes in this method of transition and the concepts behind it which form the basis of the apparent dissections of form, light and space which are fundamental to Analytic Cubism.
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