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. Sotheby's art handlers ...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is known as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His artistic contributions completely changed the face of modern art. Picasso’s experiments with various ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Green now adds Cubism and Reality to his own sequence of essential publications, including the monumental Cubism and its Enemies (1987), and Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo (2005), and such ...

The Art Museum of Philadelphia has sorted through its basement and pulled out rarely seen works by Picasso. The new exhibit displays more than 200 works made by Pablo Picasso and his contemporaries in ...

Between 1904 and 1907, the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism, a movement which abandoned the traditional single point of view in a work of art and changed the ...

Quote of the Day: Pablo Picasso believed art was essential for survival, not just decoration. His quote, "Art washes away ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

With the large Cubist-inspired painting, Picasso put a human face on “collateral damage.” In the wake of history’s first saturation aerial bombardment, Picasso wove the shattered shards of that ...

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 ...

Before taking up the browns, grays and ochers of Cubism, the young Pablo Picasso spent the years 1901 to 1906 creating colorful works of enigmatic realism that started out in shades of blue and ended ...

Since its early days Hollywood has likened films to art and filmmakers to artists, acknowledging art's impact on cinema, writes MARTIN A. GROVE. By Martin A. Grove, The Associated Press “Picasso” ...