What is cubism trying to do?

Question

Does it only distort reality?

Answer 1

Don't you mean to ask what WAS cubism trying to do? It was a style that hasn't been used by serious artists for over sixty years.

I could explain what the artists were trying to do with cubism but probably not nearly as well as this definition from Wikipedia. Here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism

Answer 2

No, cubism did not just distort reality. It was a response by painters to the world of art. Clients had gotten their fill of painting by the early 20th century, and had started buying more sculpture and had starting visiting more sculpture shows in galleries.

The painters' reaction was to attempt to show all sides of a subject on the flat canvas surface. Sculpture had captured the public's eye because it could demonstrate all views of a subject by having the public walk around the sculpture. That was not possible with a painting, so, most notably Picasso and Marcel Duchamp's, broke their subjects up into parts that would splay across the canvas, yet show the viewer the 3 dimensional subject -very clever, isn't it?
Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" is my personal favorite. On the Internet you can only see a tiny portion of the entire painting, so go to a library to see if you can view all of it. You might have to go to a local university and see the slides of it the art department has. Most other sources cannot show the entire piece because of reproduction laws. It's worth the work.

Answer 3

Shows form from a different perspective. I dont think it distorts but gives a view on reality.

Answer 4

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective

Answer 5

I believe it attempts to show many perspectives at once.

Answer 6

cusbism makes himself ready to play circket

Answer 7

its all about people who have no artistic talent convincing idiots that their wastes of paint are worth something.