The Accordionist is a painting done by Pablo Picasso in 1911. The painting is the depiction of a man playing an accordion. This painting was done in the style of analytic cubism, which Picasso invented between 1907 and 1914. In this, he took three dimensional shapes and made them two dimensional. The image is clearly distorted, but uses simple color schemes to convey the meaning and depth. This type of cubism, analytical cubism, is the key in the development of modern painting because it gave way to a new form of pictorial space. Deep perspective is now replaced with shallow perspective. There is no longer several different elements to catch your attention. As seen in The Accordionist, you are primarily focused on differentiating the different yet simple shapes and making out the figure. The use of the brown and tan tones do not distract or take away from this either.

            As seen in Ezra Pounds poems that we looked at in class, he does not want to distract from the meaning or depth of his works either. As stated in the essay read for class, Pound was probably the most effected by the modern art, which was obviously influenced by Cubism. The simplicity of Pounds words draw attention to the simple meaning he is conveying in his works. In In a Station of the Metro, he writes a two lined poem that is rhythmic yet simple. He goes between modernism and nature and intertwines the two. We are meant to understand the meaning between this and nothing more. Like in The Accordionist, we are meant to understand the image and nothing more; how the different shapes convey and construct a simple image.