Pablo Picasso, “Sheet Music and Guitar” (1912) 41,5 x 48 cm Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist ...

Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, they shatter modern art to pieces. By Jason Farago Paris, and the year ...

Introduce your students to Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of all time and a pioneer of the Cubist movement. In this engaging art history lesson, students will discover how Picasso ...

Picasso’s revolutionary Cubism is considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century, earning him the moniker “father of modern art.” Its impact was so immense that it helped inspire a ...

Lucky is the artist who is born to his vocation. For an optimum outcome, however, what seems to be required-in Lucky is the artist who is born to his vocation. For an optimum outcome, however, what ...

ROBERT DELAUNAY was a big, blond, bright-eyed Parisian who had a passion for painting and was inordinately ambitious. As a youth, wrote Gertrude Stein, Delaunay “was always asking how old Picasso had ...

On the accession of the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I recall hearing, years ago, that when the ambitious survey exhibition “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering ...

Art — “The expression of human creative skill and imagination.” Artists mix up varieties of colors to paint something unique. They sharpen fine lead to sketch the little things that come up in their ...

John Golding, one of the premier historians of cubism and an accomplished abstract painter, died on April 9 at the age of 82, according to The New York Times. The news was first announced by the ...

Modern art was born ugly. “It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly,” an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris. “The drawing ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...