There are so many movements, groups, genres, and areas of discipline within the history of art. From Cubism to Postmodernism, movements have shaped the way art is created and remembered. Ultimately, ...

Cubism is famous because its artists developed a new visual language (or representational regime) that announced a definite and radical break with the tradition of naturalism in Western art. Cubism ...

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Hank Willis Thomas, Colonialism and Abstract Art, 2019) (image courtesy the artist) The 1936 “Cubism and Abstract Art” graphic by the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Alfred J.

If you caught my post on how Picasso actually had two eyes on one side of his head, you probably thought I was trying to be cute and clever about cubism. Well, OK, yes, I was. But underlying my ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

ROBERT DELAUNAY was a big, blond, bright-eyed Parisian who had a passion for painting and was inordinately ambitious. As a youth, wrote Gertrude Stein, Delaunay “was always asking how old Picasso had ...

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 ...