There are so many movements, groups, genres, and areas of discipline within the history of art. From Cubism to Postmodernism, movements have shaped the way art is created and remembered. Ultimately, ...
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 ...
ROBERT DELAUNAY was a big, blond, bright-eyed Parisian who had a passion for painting and was inordinately ambitious. As a youth, wrote Gertrude Stein, Delaunay “was always asking how old Picasso had ...
Art collector Leonard Lauder enriches Metropolitan%27s modern-art collection His 78 Cubist artworks will go on view next year Met director calls donation ...
Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
Although originally conceived in Europe, art deco came to define American interwar prosperity, optimism and luxury.
By sensationalizing the styles he despised, Hitler added to the mystique of the audacious avant-garde artists, many of whom ...