The art movement called Cubism -- which incorporated the element of time -- was developed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) around 1908. While Picasso and Braque moved on to ...
Read ArticleJacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...
Read ArticleLiubov Popova was one of the many women artists active in the avant garde art during the period of the Russian Revolution (1917). Not only did she experiment in all of the most recent modernist styles ...
Read ArticleGino Severini was a Futurist painter, writer, mosaicist and set designer. Severini took the Cubism-offshoot movement of Futurism into total abstraction. He exhausted his commitment to Futurism by the ...
Read ArticleFrancis Picabia was a standout Cubist painter who avoided the common subject matter of Cubism, still life and portraits, opting for documenting personal experiences and memories. ...
Read ArticleThere is seriously no better distraction from a nerve-wracking election year than to look at beautiful art. By now you know my idea of “beautiful” is FULL OF VIBRANT COLOR. Robert Delaunay ...
Read ArticleAsian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month continues with the work of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Kuniyoshi applied modernist compositional principles to works that are solidly grounded in the object. Hi ...
Read ArticleIn the annals of art history—and I mean the standard art history texts used for high school and college—obviously thousands of significant artists are left out. Well, as I’ve said be ...
Read ArticleI always like to celebrate artists who show a wide variety of stylistic exploration. Francis Picabia is certainly one of them. ...
Read ArticleI’m off on a week’s vacation in Provincetown, which, as you may know, has been the home of a thriving art colony since the late 1800s. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914, ...
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