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.

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, Howe ...

Cubism’s inventors. Inspired by Paul Cézanne’s geometric shapes and their own Paris encounters with non-European art and objects, Picasso and Braque initially relied on an ochre-and-dung ...