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 ...

I recall hearing, years ago, that when the ambitious survey exhibition “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism” was first proposed to the board of the Museum of Modern Art, one trustee protested what ...

Determining the 10 most famous Cubist paintings in an objective and scientific way is impossible, because there is no way of knowing how many people have heard of just one cubist painting, let alone ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The close and competitive working-relationship between Pablo Picasso and ...

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 ...

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 ...

This exhibition explores the history of abstract painting, and its ties to the future. Beginning around the time of abstract painting’s birth, it presents abstraction’s rise, the trends that ...