In 1907 Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in Paris — five women of Avignon sliced into sharp geometric shards, faces masked like African carvings. No one could read it; even his friend Matisse thought it was a joke.

But Braque understood. For the next six years he and Picasso worked like roped-together climbers, sometimes unable to tell their own canvases apart — the phase called ‘Analytic Cubism,’ stripping objects down to a geometric skeleton. Then came ‘Synthetic Cubism,’ where they pasted newspaper, wallpaper and sheet music into the picture — the first time modern art performed the act of ‘collage.’

What Cubism shattered was 500 years of Renaissance single-point perspective — it asked: ‘Why must a picture be seen from only one angle?’ That question later became 3-D cinema, Bento UI, Figma’s multiple views, Notion’s block system. Every ‘many-viewpoints-at-once’ design owes a debt to these two.