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Portrait of Fernandel, 1909
Cubist painters were
concerned not only with an object’s superficial appearance superficial appearance but
with everything that was known about it: its sides, its profile, its position in space and
its relationship to other objects. How was all this included on a single
canvas? By displaying simultaneously all aspects of the object, superimposing all
views.
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Portrait of Fernandel, 1909 |
The face seems fractured when seen up close, but from a distance this experiment with
planes allows the viewer to reconstruct the volumes of the forehead and the play of shadow
and light.
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