Famously, cubism as an art form arose in part as a response to photography, as well as what seemed like the creative dead-end involved with traditional lifelike

Famously, cubism as an art form arose in part as a response to photography, as well as what seemed like the creative dead-end involved with traditional lifelike representational art. The cubists thought "realistic" painting and conventional photography can both be thought of as deceptions. After all, the world is comprised of three dimensional objects that subtend through time, yet the canvas or the photographic image are 2D representations of a fixed moment in time that trick our eyes into interpreting the forms within as 3D. Picasso, Braque and others thought, let's embrace the fact that we are working on a 2D medium yet find a way to honestly convey the dimensionality of the world. Thus cubist works often depict subjects from various angles, such as the front and side of the face of Dora Maar in Picasso's well-known work [0]. Ironically in the 1980's painter David Hockney took the method full circle with his "joiner" photomontage style of photography[1]. I'm also reminded of how often when beautifully rich deep space photos are posted, particularly if a bright colorful image is shown [2], a common response is, "that's not a 'real' image, it's digitally processed 'false color,' right?" But all color is false color in a sense. It's a combination of the property of the object we're looking at, the processing limitations of our eyes, and our brain's subjective experience of color as a "qualia."[3] A set of choices made by our biology, you might say. The algorithms in digital cameras are designed to create images that roughly correspond to those biological choices, but that doesn't make them any more real than "false color" photos. In years past, conventional film emulsions attempted the same, and failed. In the 1950's and 1960's the newly emergent popular color emulsions were designed to make human skin look attractive in the developed snapshot. But of course not all human skin is the same color, so needless to say, mistakes were made. [4] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Dora_Maar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Dora_Maar [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNsfZYQeE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNsfZYQeE0 [2] https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/heic0515a.jpg https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/heic05... [3] https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/angus-menuge-explains-why-red-is-such-a-problem-in-philosophy/ https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/angus-menuge-explains-why-red... [4] https://time.com/5871502/film-race-history/ https://time.com/5871502/film-race-history/