look as if it is broken up or sometimes made from cubes. Pablo Picasso and the artist George Braque invented Cubism as a new form of art. Picasso created one of the earliest cubist paintings in 1907.

Both trompe l’oeil and Cubism are as conceptual as they are visual, and irony is conceptually foundational to one of their core interests. Irony allows the artists to enquire into the nature of ...