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The Linear understanding of Time in European Art

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Camera Challenged Landscape Painting

A picasso portrait, or any cubist portrait from about 19 o six onwards, does not look like the traditional portrait. What's going on there? And why was it radical at the time? Well, a couple of things had happened that changed how portraits were done. When photography became invented, and now the rich people didn't want their portraits painted. They wanted this new piece of technology to get a photograph of em. The photograph is the ultimate technological expression of anxiety towards time.

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