saw picasso’s guitars at the moma – just wow.
Cubism was, initially, far less a style than a way of rethinking art’s place in the world. To some artists at the beginning of the 20th c. that place felt uncertain. Photography’s recording eye had made realist painting redundant. At the same time, with old social, scientific, religious and political certainties giving way, the very definition of reality was up for grabs. More here.