Venerated today as a co-inventor of Cubism, which he developed in spirited competition with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Gris is widely celebrated for pioneering a new kind of art.

Sharp angles. Bare sides. Flat features. Only lines. Am I talking about Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon or about ...

This painting by the artist Pablo Picasso is an example of a portrait close portraitA picture of a person, normally the face. made in the cubist style. Cubist art shows objects or people from many ...

“She was the only Australian artist to have meaningfully contributed to cubism in France, the first to teach cubism in Australia and the first, arguably, to exhibit cubist work in ...

Austria’s romanticism is evident as he portrays a mother and her child in the rice fields. She cradles her child close to her ...

Apollinaire is remembered for popularising or coining the now-indispensable terms Cubism and Surrealism to describe what his artist buddies were getting up to in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. "Before earning an advanced degree at the University of Oklahoma ...