Picasso himself elaborated on this theme by referring to the tones of white, grey and ochre in the Cubist portraits he painted around 1909 as ‘attributes’: “I suppose I use the word ‘attribute’ in the ...

Cubism, pion­eered by greats like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century, chall­enged conventional perspectives through its exploration of abstraction and multiple perspectives.