Picasso and Braque revolutionized painting with their new approach to representation.
c. 1907 - 1939
Picasso and Braque revolutionized painting with their new approach to representation.
c. 1907 - 1939
Cubism is a terrible name. Except for a very brief moment, the style has nothing to do with cubes.
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Chagall renders conventional, but strikingly personal, elements of his Parisian studio in a truly unconventional way: as a set of intersecting and overlapping lines and prismatic planes
Leger's late Cubism so elegantly seen in this mural for a fireplace.
Learn how to paint in the Cubist style of artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Cubist sculpture challenged the European sculptural tradition in terms of form, media, and often subject matter.
Maintaining a precarious balance between representation and abstraction, Picasso and Braque saw themselves as pursuing a daring and dangerous course.
Delaunay and Léger used Cubism’s abstract language of fractured forms and spatial dislocations to express the modern urban experience.
Despite its often baffling innovations, one of the defining features of Cubism is its engagement with the Western painting tradition.
Three Musicians looks like a collage made from cut out pieces of colored paper — but it is an oil painting.
When we consider what a Cubist painting represents we engage in an intellectual or conceptual activity rather than a merely perceptual or visual one.
This use of multiple perspectives was a hallmark of the Cubist style, but Braque and Picasso never explained why they employed this technique.
Bank of America's Masterpiece Moment
Crafted in the 16th century, this pair of six-panel screens is painted in ink on paper and showcases both Yamato-e and Chinese painting styles. The work features pine trees―a typical Japanese motif―and it has beautifully captured the richness of a Japanese landscape.