How did Cubist painters show multiple views of an object on one canvas?
Cubist painters, including Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, rejected traditional Renaissance techniques of perspective and illusion to present a new kind of reality. To show multiple views of an object on a single canvas, they employed a process of breaking down, or analyzing, the form of the subject.12
By fracturing objects into overlapping opaque and transparent planes, artists could depict different points of view, axes, and light sources simultaneously within the same picture. This approach allowed them to convey more information about an object than could be contained in a single, limited illusionistic view. In their Analytical Cubism phase, these fragmented forms were often rendered in a monochromatic palette to ensure the viewer focused on the structure of the form itself rather than color or traditional depth.132