ith the lessons of Cezanne created the new style that would become known as Cubism. Picasso’s painting Man with a Violin is expressed with many different viewpoints all at once. This is the main characteristic that cubists focused on. The painting itself is very confusing and hard to understand from the first glance. One might wonder that perhaps that is what the artist was trying to do. It is an expression of life, and life as we know it, is not always clear. In the painting, we can see the different parts of the violin and the man, but it is not clear. The composition is extremely abstract which is common in Cubism. There are no specific colors used, but they seem to be cool and controlled. The best way to describe this painting would be as Fiero did, “the comfortable, recognizable world of the senses disappeared beneath a scaffold of semitransparent planes and short, angular lines; ordinary objects were made to look as if they had exploded and been reassembled somewhat arbitrarily in bits and pieces.” One can not make out where the body stops and the violin begins. Picasso definitely captures the different perspectives displayed in his painting.In impressionism as mentioned previously, time is important because the artists are trying to capture light at that time; what the images is like at that moment in time color and light. They try to express life as it is lived and light as it is seen. Cubism on the other hand uses time in another way. Cubism focuses more on movement and viewpoints. How ever, each movement and perspective takes time. As we see in the paintings Monet captures the time of light, how the objects looked in the light at that time, where Picasso is revealing all perspectives of the object at one time. The object has shifted in many movements, over time. Both of these styles do not pertain to the “traditional” lines, Impressionism just uses blurred images, and Cubism uses...
