Learn how to paint in the Cubist style of artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Cubism
Must art be beautiful?
The Old Guitarist, and the question of ...
Cubist sculpture challenged the European sculptural tradition in terms of form, media, and often subject matter.
Cubist Sculpture II
Maintaining a precarious balance between representation and abstraction, Picasso and Braque saw themselves as pursuing a daring and dangerous course.
Pablo Picasso, Three Women
Delaunay and Léger used Cubism’s abstract language of fractured forms and spatial dislocations to express the modern urban experience.
The Cubist City – Robert Delaunay and ...
Cubism claimed to represent the modern world in new, specifically modern ways.
Salon Cubism
Despite its often baffling innovations, one of the defining features of Cubism is its engagement with the Western painting tradition.
Georges Braque, Violin and Palette
Three Musicians looks like a collage made from cut out pieces of colored paper — but it is an oil painting.
Pablo Picasso, The Three 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.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist ...
This use of multiple perspectives was a hallmark of the Cubist style, but Braque and Picasso never explained why they employed this technique.
Cubism and multiple perspectives
Picasso’s portrait of Kahnweiler presents the essential innovations of Analytic Cubism.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Guitar demonstrates the breakdown between art and life that becomes a key theme of twentieth-century sculpture.
Cubist Sculpture I
Cubist collage had an enormous influence on modern art in the 20th century.
Synthetic Cubism, Part II
How did pieces of newspaper, wallpaper, construction paper, cloth, and even rope — end up in art?
Synthetic Cubism, Part I
Picasso was a technically skilled draftsman—so why did he choose to take his forms apart?
Pablo Picasso and the new language of ...
Ostensibly a landscape, this painting has little to do with nature.
Pablo Picasso, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
Picasso represents a guitar in three dimensions, but he doesn’t actually make one.
Pablo Picasso, Guitar
An homage to Cézanne, but also a reaction to having seen Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Braque is exploring.
Georges Braque, Le Viaduc à L’Estaque, (The ...
Paintings of this size had historically exalted war, but this one suggests that war is anything but heroic.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica
Introducing mechanically reproduced images here undermines Picasso’s vocation as a painter—so why does he do it?
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