Multiple Viewpoints

The concept of multiple viewpoints was primarily explored by the Cubist painters of the early 20th century.  Artists were questioning the linear, single point perspective standard in painting.  Photography had some part to play in all this because many painters no longer felt that the role of their medium was to create a window on the world. Because photography could always do a more efficient job at this, painters were liberated to explore the possibilities of their medium for entirely new purposes.

In my own work, I could use this concept as a way to re-examine my 3 dimensional pieces, perhaps as a personal tool for understanding my work more analytically from different angles, or by trying to create cubist-like optical illusions in the work itself when looked at from different angles.  Perhaps one could interpret the idea of multiple viewpoints both figuratively and literally, portraying a particular subject according to the way different people might see it.  I can imagine the different blocked off planes containing subtle changes to the subject that reflect different attitudes, rather than the object, literally, from different angles.  Or perhaps a sculptural piece that changes  or transforms as you move around it.