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We were trying to move in a direction opposite to Impressionism. That was the reason we abandoned colour, emotion, sensation, and everything that had been introduced by the Impressionists, to search again for an architectonic basis in the composition, trying to make an order of it...
( Cubism)

Picasso therefore showed a desire to move away from the impressionists and from the standards and norms that were accepted in art. But more importantly, the Cubist artists were searching for new explanations of reality and a technique that would be more effective in expressing their feelings and thoughts about the world around them

In order to understand the reasons for the move towards Cubism one has to understand something of the time in which Picasso and Braque worked and created. There was throughout the artistic world at that time an intense dissatisfaction with the status quo or the accepted views of society and reality. This can be seen in the criticisms of the norms and standards of the time, not only in the art world but in many others areas and disciplines......

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