Cubism and geometry

Cubism is considered the first vanguard, since it breaks with perspective. In cubist pictures, traditional perspective disappears. It treats the shapes of nature by means of geometric figures, fragmenting lines and surfaces. The so-called "multiple perspective" is adopted: all the parts of an object are represented in the same plane.




Picasso will also be interested in avant-garde science that at the moment pays attention to non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The impact of non-Euclidean geometries on the philosophical thought of the time will be enormous because they questioned the positivist conception of science and supported the idea of the relativity of knowledge. What arises at this time is that, from an intellectual point of view, it was possible the existence of multiple geometries in coexistence with the Euclidean.

The colors at this time were not interesting because the important thing was the different points of view and the geometrization, not the chromatism. They were elaborating a "new language" that analyzes reality and decomposes it into multiple geometric elements. The points of view multiplied, abandoning definitively the unity of the point of view of the Renaissance perspective.