Cubism 101. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881. By age 23 he moved to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, where he found success fairly quickly.

The fragmented forms and blended perspectives that define Picasso’s early Cubist works imbue these paintings with a level of visual complexity; they appear simultaneously flat and full of depth.

And at Sotheby's last month, Picasso's "Femme à la Montre" ("Woman with a Watch") became the most expensive painting to be auctioned this year, selling for $139.4 million. But in the #MeToo era ...

Now, for the first time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is bringing together six paintings linked to the commission. "Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn" opens on Thursday, September 14 and ...

Arab modernists used Cubism to sketch new vistas and reinterpret canonical texts. For example, Jewad Selim offered a new twist on Yahya al-Wasiti's 13th-century illustrations of the medieval tales ...

Picasso made cubism official in 1907, but it was something that he had already been able to imagine and begin to represent in some drawings from his time and apprenticeship in A Coruña: the ...

Creating abstract portrait drawings with kids takes some of the pressure off of the beginner artist. ... Observe how Cubist artists (such as Picasso, Gris, Duchamp, and Braque) ...

For three months in the summer of 1921, Pablo Picasso worked out of a makeshift garage studio in Fontainebleau, France, where he created both cubist and classical masterpieces. Now, for the first ...

Bringing together major paintings and drawings by a paramount artist of the 20th century and one of the greatest artists of the 17th, “Picasso-El Greco” at the Kunstmuseum Basel invites ...

And in 1921, Picasso was both teasing out the implications of his earlier forays into a more stringent cubism and evolving new and more conservative representational approaches. The paintings are ...

With the push to Cubism in 1909-1910, Picasso and Braque effected the greatest break in the rules of Western painting ... In the 1920s and ’30s he made a wonderfully weird series of paintings ...