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 ...

Hank Willis Thomas, Colonialism and Abstract Art, 2019) (image courtesy the artist) The 1936 “Cubism and Abstract Art” graphic by the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Alfred J.

I recall hearing, years ago, that when the ambitious survey exhibition “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism” was first proposed to the board of the Museum of Modern Art, one trustee protested what ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It is a curious fact,” writes Alan Bowness, “that there has never before been a major Cubist exhibition in London.” Mr. Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery, has lately set out to rectify this ...

Pablo Picasso, “The Scallop Shell: ‘Notre Avenir est dans l’Air'” (1912), enamel and oil on canvas; oval, 15 x 21 3/4 inches. Promised Gift from the Leonard A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern art refers to art produced between the late 1800s and mid-1900s and did not stick to a realistic approach to its art pieces. Learn who is known as the Father of Modern Art, his innovative style ...