Problem: Discuss how artists and art movements radically altered traditional methods of manipulating elements of art.
Picasso and Braque, for example, revolutionized shape with Cubism. Cubists dissected objects into two-dimensional shapes, which resulted in the representation of multiple points of view of an object on a single surface. Cubists liberated form from its traditional role of describing an object from just one, fixed, static perspective. In a similar manner, Matisse and the Fauves liberated color from its traditional role of objectively describing something, and used color to express the essence of a person, place, or thing by using color arbitrarily.