In what ways can Cubism be considered a 'realist' response to early twentieth century modernity?

'Few can have guessed at the time it was made that the picture which Pablo Picasso worked on in the winter of 1906-1907, and which now is known as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was destined to have so decisive an effect on all modern painting'. The painting shows a group of female naked whores, two of them on the right hand side hideously deformed and two others staring, confronting the viewer. This image is disturbing 'both …

…complexity of vision'. There was a desire to paint things as they are not as they appear, therefore getting a more truthful outlook on the painting. The effects of Cubism are still with us today. The effects are seen in art today and have contributed towards the development of architecture and applied arts. Cubist paintings were intellectual, and the painters depicted 'the world not as they saw it, but as they knew it to be'.