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The Cubist City – Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger
Delaunay and Léger used Cubism’s abstract language of fractured forms and spatial dislocations to express the modern urban experience.
Georges Braque, Violin and Palette
Despite its often baffling innovations, one of the defining features of Cubism is its engagement with the Western painting tradition.
Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians
Three Musicians looks like a collage made from cut out pieces of colored paper — but it is an oil painting.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist Musicians
When we consider what a Cubist painting represents we engage in an intellectual or conceptual activity rather than a merely perceptual or visual one.
Velino Shije Herrera (Ma Pe Wi), Design, Tree and Birds
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera.
Hiram Powers, The Greek Slave
Though at first glance this nude seems plucked from classical antiquity, it actually alludes to modern politics.
Gerardus Duyckinck I (attributed), Six portraits of the Levy-Franks family, c. 1735
A Jewish family in early New York
Byzantine Mosaic of a Personification, Ktisis
This Byzantine mosaic shows the personification of the act of generous giving — Ktisis
Woman with Scroll
An Early Byzantine sculpture of a woman with a scroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Imagery of Power on Benin Bronze Plaques
The audience hall in the palace in Benin City communicated to visiting ambassadors, traders, courtiers, and subjects the power and wealth of the Oba, or king.