in the low definition world of the medieval woodcut, each object created its own space, and the there was no rational connected space into which it must fit. As the retinal impressiois intensified, objects cease to cohere in a space of their own making, and, instead, become "contained" in a uniform,continuous and "rational" space. Relativity theory in 1905announced the dissolution of uniform Newtonian space as an illusion or fiction, however useful. Einstein pronounced the doom of continusou or "rational" space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx brothers and MAD.