"The violin and sculpture"
painted by Juan Jray(1914)

Cubism presented a new style, with its bold colors and fractured geometry in French homes as decorative artists created Cubist-inspired lamps, folding screens, clothing and other everyday objects.

The Cubists threw out the traditional techniques of perspective, rejected foreshortening and the imitation of nature. They represented a new reality in paintings that depict radically fragmented objects in multiple views.   Instead of making things look like they look, the artists took it to themselves to show things as they are, not how they look.

By completely discarding the traditional forms, the artist was now free to use color, shape, form, line-thickness all towards the purpose of putting through a message. Picasso's "Guernica" is prime example, showing a scene in multiple dimensions of screaming black and gray; a shocking portrayal of the Spanish Civil War.