Researching the Art Movement of Cubism

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David Hockney - Place Furstenberg Paris



This painting by David Hockney, depicts a place in Paris, France by using multiple cut and pasted parts of an image to show the almost panoramic view of the area, cubism is definite in the collage as there are visual borders between images.

This collage is depicting two plants, both in macro photos, the right-hand image consisting of three photos and the left-hand image consisting of  two photos, a small marquee square applied on top of the larger images.


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