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The accumulation of such devices, however, soon had the effect of telescoping, even while separating, surface and depth.

The process of flattening seemed inexorable, and it became necessary to emphasize the surface still further in order to prevent it from fusing with the illusion.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.

It is true that his first collage looks more Analytical than Braque's, which would confirm the date he assigns it.

But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as well as of typography ; ;

and moreover, he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical Cubism as far back as the end of 1910.