Cubism

My creation exhibits characteristics of cubism because it has cut out pictures of eyes, nose, mouths, an ear, and a hand. There are several drawn hands scattered throughout the collage. I put in drawings of things I'm interested in like dolphins, and the ocean. The surface intersects at seemingly random spots.

Cubism is a style of art that was started in the 20th century by Pablo Picasso. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.