These two paintings look similar, but they are works of art by two different artists, both famous. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), the paintings are hung side by side. The top picture is by Georges Braques (1882-1963) and the bottom by by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) . The artists were contemporaries and started what is known as the Cubism style of painting. Cubism made use of shifting viewpoints. For example, we can look at a table from different angles: from above, from below or from an oblique angle. Cubists attempted to capture this on the same flat canvas, which then made it difficult to distinguish objects from each other and from the space they take up. And yet, for this radical approach in representing 3D, which results in a very abstract painting, the subject matter of Cubists is usually conventional and drawn from the still life tradition.
Picasso apparently did his painting to complement Braques'.
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