The opening of “Decenter” at Abrons Arts Center, with Douglas Melini’s “Favorable Transformations” (2012) in the foreground (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I first learned about Cubism in ...

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 ...

Historic art movements and their visual characteristics have considerably paved the way for modern day architecture. For years, architects have been borrowing techniques and stylistic approaches to ...

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 ...

Clive Bell, distinguished English critic and pontiff of modernism, declares cubism is in decline. It has served its purpose of freeing art from conventional restraints, and is in danger of becoming ...

Cubism, a genre that stands out as one of the most revolutionary in visual art, was pioneered by the courageous and creative minds of Pablo Picasso and George Braque. Before delving into this ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is is my art GCSE final piece. For the piece my class had to paint certain objects of still life all over the painting, i used a lot of colour because usual cubism paintings like Braque are a bit ...