NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the recipient of a "transformative" collection of Cubist works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others. The donation, worth more than $1 billion, was ...

Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks ...

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 ...

IN a warren of studios and flats known as “the wash house,” at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes ...

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