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• Spatial Illusion

  Spatial Illusion – Perspective, Light and the Opening of the Picture Plane The idea of creating a convincing sense of space on a flat surface is one of the great achievements of European painting. Spatial illusion reached a decisive breakthrough during the Renaissance. With the development of linear perspective in the early fifteenth century, it became possible to…

• Cubism

  Cubism – Surface, Space, Perspective and Simultaneity Cubism emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, above all in the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Its starting point was a rejection of the idea, dominant since the Renaissance, that a picture should represent the visible world from one fixed viewpoint. Cubism fundamentally questioned this…