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Is Cubism at the heart of all contemporary painting?
I have always considered Cubism to be the key movement in the development of contemporary art. I see it as the ultimate catalyst, a clean break with traditions and a revolutionary way of seeing, interpreting and reconstructing the material world through painting. After Cubism, there could be no return to the false comforts and certainties of representational painting, Cubism fatally undermined conventional ways of recording what we see; for the first time, the supremacy of Renaissance perspective was critically challenged and the notion of single point perspective recognised as an artificial construct, no more than an artful solution, a tenuous connection to how we see and apprehend what is before our eyes.
Cubism informed us that we were not the centre of the universe, with rays of light travelling in predetermined straight lines from object to eye. On the contrary, we remain as we always have been, inconsequential and peripheral to the laws of science and physics, part of the endless flow of light across space and time, neither the final arbiters nor final recipients. Cubism taught us that we are essentially stateless and without status, but the world is not static and the concept of multiple viewpoints exploded the myth of illusionistic representation. Einstein said that “Cubism put an end to the laziness or fatigue of vision. Seeing had again become an active process” (Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts [1931]
Upcoming Exhibitions and Art Fairs
I will be exhibiting abstract landscape artwork inspired by the Fenlands in Britain at the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead, London this May 5-8. I will be exhibiting with Linton 59 and Darryl Nantais Art Gallery is representing my artwork. I do hope you can be there and see my artwork up close. If you would like free tickets, message me on my live chat and I can provide you a code for complimentary pairs of tickets. Also, don't forget to subscribe to my art newsletter to receive not-to-miss updates like these.
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