While Picasso found inspiration in the primitive art of his native Spain, it was after he encountered African art in Paris that the painter completed his Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907, a revolutionary ...
Consisting of a collection donated to the Met by the cosmetics magnate Leonard A Lauder, this is the single most important exhibition of cubism since MoMA’s Picasso/Braque show in 1989 Capital in the ...
Art collector Leonard Lauder enriches Metropolitan%27s modern-art collection His 78 Cubist artworks will go on view next year Met director calls donation ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett decided to study with the artist André Lhote in Paris in 1921, they were consciously taking a step away from the certainties of realism and into the unknown realm of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NO ART movement is interesting in its afterlife, and cubism should be no exception. It was radical around 1910 and became scintillating ...