Without denigrating the Cubists’ achievement, the curators show an important precedent for some of their showiest innovations in one of the most unfashionable of artistic genres. In their ...

New York, Paris, Berlin, London & Singapore the places and exhibitions to see for the jet-set this Autumn / Fall.

Words have appeared in visual art since classical times, but until the modern era their use was generally restricted to a few specific functions. In the early twentieth century, the Cubists Braque and ...

These drawings by J.M.W Turner show how perspective and tone (or shadow) can be used to create the illusion of real, solid three-dimensional objects. The cubists however, felt that this type of ...

To some people art history can seem intimidating and complex, riddled with hundreds of specific terms and ideas.

Antonio Seguí is a contemporary Argentine painter and illustrator whose vivid, often satirical works focus on the people and vistas of modern urban life. Influenced by the Cubists and Modernist ...

In l9l2 Rivera settled in Paris, where he befriended other emigré avant-garde artists, such as Amedeo Modigliani and Piet Mondrian. During World War l, he became a leading member of a group of Cubists ...

Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and ...

In his 1912 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Vasily Kandinsky made an analogy between music and painting as two means of abstraction, a radical mode of artmaking that freed color and line from ...

The Venice Biennale is "the art world's great beano", said Laura Freeman in The Times. Every other year, artists, collectors, curators and assorted hangers-on from all over fly into the Italian ...