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A new exhibit on Mexican artist Diego Rivera looks at his portraits from the several years in Paris when he focused on Cubism. "Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917" opens Sunday at Southern ...

I was always afraid of Cubism. It wasn’t an I-just-don’t-get-it-and-that-scares-me kind of fear, but an I-just-don’t-get-it-yet-I’m-sure-that-if-I-did-it-would-make-me-afraid kind. I was afraid of its ...

This painting by the artist Pablo Picasso is an example of a portrait close portraitA picture of a person, normally the face. made in the cubist style. Cubist art shows objects or people from many ...

“I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them,” Picasso said. Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the forty-one-year-old New York artist, paints people as he feels them, not as they look. His fragmented ...

Between spring and winter 1909, Picasso executed more than sixty portraits of his companion, Fernande Olivier. These works--produced in a variety of formats and mediums--exhibit a range of artistic ...

Just like the incongruous features of his cubist portraits, Pablo Picasso’s disparate artistic styles, mediums and interests create a remarkable whole. Over his long and prolific career, Picasso ...

1918-19. (Courtesy 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris) Cubism shattered the conventions of virtually all art that came before it. Rebelling against the forms of Romanticism, ...

Pablo Picasso, Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’), (1955). (Photo: Christie’s) Out came the cell phones, held above the head and facing auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen. It was about 7:20 pm at Christie’s on ...