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Produced during my A-Level Art course, 2001.

Oil on paper.

The inspiration came from Picasso's still life of a violin whilst studying Cubism.

I was to represent an image of a violin not as it appears to our eyes, but rather to 'construct' it from familiar fragments, instead of merely copying.

It was the Cubist idea that when one 'sees' an object, in the eye of their minds they are also thinking of its various aspects at the same time. So by representing the object with fragments of its familiar forms and shapes, they felt that it showed more of the 'real' object than any single snapshot could ever contain.