colors or objects used. Cubists were looking for a different way to express human form as well as art in general. They provided what we could almost call a God's-eye view of reality: every aspect of the whole subject, seen simultaneously in a single dimension. According to Fiero, the Cubist image, conceived as if one were moving around, above, and below the subject and even perceiving it from within, appropriated the fourth dimension-time itself. In a sense, Cubism is four-dimensional: depth, height, breath, and time, but seen all at once. It displays different viewpoints from different aspects. The object is taken and looked at in many perspectives and is represented that way on the canvas. Monet’s painting Sunrise displays vivid color, which is commonly used among impressionists. The painting is of the sun rising over the lake, over looking the bay and the boats within. “Sunrise is a patently a seascape; but the painting says more about how one sees than about what one sees. It transcribes the fleeting effects of light and the changing atmosphere of water and air into a tissue of small dots and streaks of color-the elements of pure perception” (Fiero 114). This painting is typical of its style because it captures light at that moment. The sun is rising and its color is projected to everything in its path. Monet seems to capture this beautiful moment with numerous brush strokes. One can almost point out where the vibrant colors were mixed directly on the canvas. Monet’s painting is typical of its style is because there are no defining lines, the images are blurred one can barely make out the boats in the background. Monet successfully obtains the light he was trying to portray. In many of his early works Picasso used Impressionism. For the most part, his use of Impressionism was nothing more than a stepping stone to his later innovative Cubist designs. The aesthetics of tribal art combined w...
