Breaking natural forms into fundamental shapes—such as triangles for pine trees—to reveal the underlying "force lines" of the scene.
Lhote’s philosophy, often termed "reasoned painting," sits at the intersection of Cubist structuralism and classical tradition. He suggests that the artist must reduce the vastness of the cosmos to a two-dimensional space without losing its essential rhythm. Key principles of his approach include: tratado del paisaje andre lhote pdf