This was achieved by abstracting the forms and shapes of the subject; cubist artists “reduced and fractured objects into geometric forms, and then realigned these within a shallow, relief like space.” Personally I have always felt that cubist work was actually successful in representing 3-dimensional spaces by crafting such series of angled facets, which tricks the viewer into a new sense of depth and space. As if the artist were trying to represent all the different sides of the subject at once.