After reading each critic’s take on Cubism, I found that Jacques Riviere’s was the one that sparked my interest the most. In my opinion, he has more profound knowledge on the subject of Cubism because he interprets the ideas of the artists well as the mistakes. According to Rivere, the Cubist transforms their objects in two ways: eliminating lighting and perspective. They believe lighting prevents things from being seen as they truly are. Instead of lighting, the shading that is usually on some parts of the object is distributed into small portions by placing the object near a lit edge of a surface. This concept is used in order to “mark the respective inclination of and divergence of the parts of the objects.(pg.185)” Perspective is also
