A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract ...

Juan Gris is cubist but not abstract. Of the four pillars of cubism — Picasso, Braque, Leger and Gris — he may be the one whose work is most accessible. Certainly, the collection on display at the ...

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 ...

Last week, "Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection" opened at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The significant gift from Estée Lauder chairman emeritus, philanthropist and art collector ...

Between 1904 and 1907, the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism, a movement which abandoned the traditional single point of view in a work of art and changed the ...

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, in 1910, turned the modern art world on its head with their flat, fractured paintings filled with geometric shapes. And they did it again, in 1912, when Cubist Juan ...

At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the ...

Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...

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 ...

“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 ...