About Cubism• The name Cubism was suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909. He observed that the pictures themselves consisted of "nothing but little cubes."• The idea behind Cubism is to show the essence of an object by displaying it from many different angles and points of view at the same time. An object is broken up, analyzed from many different perspectives and reassembled in abstract form.• An object could be reconstructed using separate views which overlapped and intersected.• The Cubists wanted to make pictures that reached beyond the rigid geometry of perspective. They wanted to introduce the idea of “relativity” which is how the artist perceived and selected elements from the subject, fusing both their observations and memories into the one concentrated image.