Cubism 101 Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881. By age 23 he moved to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, where he found success fairly quickly.

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 ...

Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985). Snow-covered Church, between 1927 and 1928, gouache and graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from The ...

But Cubism, a term coined in 1908 by a French art critic, was not always revered. Cubist paintings, such as Demoiselles d'Avignon , shocked and outraged. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch ...