CUBISM — BRAQUE PICASSO FRACTURED PLANES

VISUAL STYLE: Analytical and Synthetic Cubism — Braque and Picasso. Objects seen from multiple viewpoints simultaneously. Fractured planes reassembled into a new coherence. The truth of seeing something from everywhere at once.

COLOUR PALETTE: Analytical phase — near monochrome. Ochres, grey-browns, slate blues. The colour of thinking, not feeling. Occasional Synthetic phase intrusions — flat planes of brighter colour, collaged newspaper texture, patterned fabric.

FRACTURE LOGIC: Every object — a figure, a table, a building — is simultaneously seen from front, side, top, and interior. These views overlap and interpenetrate. A face has both eyes visible from the front.

PLANES: Geometric facets tilting in and out of the picture plane. Space is compressed — background and foreground occupy the same plane.

FIGURES: Recognisable but fragmented. The nose is there — in the wrong place. The whole person is present, distributed across the canvas.

TYPOGRAPHY: Newspaper fragments and stencilled letters as part of the visual composition — not captions, elements.

No single viewpoint. No resolved perspective. Everything seen all at once.