Readers, have you ever felt the hypocrisy of a 2D painting? I have. I feel it constantly. Artists have spent centuries upon centuries trying to paint a 3D object on a flat picture plane. Why? Why try to show something exactly as it is? Why are you lying? I know what a cup looks like. I know what flowers look like. I know what all of these every day objects look like. I see them every day. So why are we trying to portray them in the same boring manner? If you want to show a cup, why not make a cup? Why not make the 3D object that you’re trying to show?
What about if you painted the 3D object as a 3D object on a 2D plane? Take views from different angles. Show the tops, sides, bottoms, every angle of the object. Cut up the thing you want to paint and splice it back together. Not literally, of course. A lot of physical objects are hard to cut up. But on your picture plane.
Dare to be different than the centuries of artists that have come before you. Why try to blend in and go with the flow? Isn't the whole idea of being an artist to do what you want and find new and creative ways to express your views? So why are we all still trying to be the same?
Dare to be different. Give Cubism a try.
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