What is cubism? It isn't. It isn't, that is, a movement with a coherent set of ideas or goals based on any single manifesto. Like most -isms in art -- mannerism, romanticism, impressionism, abstract ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

Pablo Picasso, “The Scallop Shell: ‘Notre Avenir est dans l’Air'” (1912), enamel and oil on canvas; oval, 15 x 21 3/4 inches. Promised Gift from the Leonard A ...

At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the ...

Juan Gris' "Fruit Dish on a Striped Tablecloth," (1914), on loan from the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio in Lenox, is displayed with Luis Egidio Melendez de Ribera's "Still Life with Box of Jelly ...

“It is a curious fact,” writes Alan Bowness, “that there has never before been a major Cubist exhibition in London.” Mr. Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery, has lately set out to rectify this ...

For example, cubism was a method of painting developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braques at the beginning of the 20th century. We can compare the invention of cubism with the invention of brain soup ...