"From their hero Paul Cézanne, they’d learned to break down and reassemble multiple perspectives. Scrutinizing central African sculpture in Paris’s colonial ethnology museum, they’d learned to clarify bodies into pure geometry. Crossing those two wires they jolt the history of western art, and spark a whole new kind of image that, for the first time in 500 years, is done with simulating real life. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/design/cubism-met-museum-review.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Art%20and%20Design