Painting is one of the most interesting skills to have. Any child can do it, but the important thing in painting is the use of styles. The people who have talents can use styles very successfully and can create new techniques. With the new techniques, primitive art lost the sense and artists found m...

Georges Braque was one of the fathers of Cubism. Along with Picasso he explored and invented a new way of painting that got its name from critics who pointed out small cubes in his earliest cubist works. At the end of 1907, Braque met Picasso at the unveiling of The Ladies of Avignon. This piece ...

Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, to Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso. Picasso was a miracle from the start. There were complications with his birth and everyone was sure that he was not going to live. Picasso became one of the most well-known artists of all time. H...

Analytical and Synthetic Cubism are phases of a painting style created by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. Analytical Cubism was developed from 1907 to 1912, and Synthetic Cubism developed from 1912-1914. In this period, both artists worked closely together, competing in creating the next innovati...

Art before the twentieth century was recognized as an imitation of nature. Paintings and portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if we are looking at the real object. The first cubist works were those in which objects, landscapes, and people are represented as...

Cubism is one of the first forms of abstract art. Cubism originated in France and was influenced by African sculptures and by Paul Cezanne. The first cubist works were those in which objects, landscapes, and people are represented as many-sided solids. This enables you to see various views of the ob...

Cubism is a form of art that was created, mainly, by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The style emphasizes a flat, two-dimensional plane, contradictory to the techniques of perspective and foreshortening. The main distinguishing characteristic between cubism and o...

Georges Braque's Violin and Pitcher shows a combining of ideas and the beginning of analytical cubism. This work is perhaps Braque's first break away from faceting purely to display subject matter and towards a style where facets flow of a logic of their own. The work of Paul Cezanne l...

The date was August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On this day two Russian-Jewish immigrants, Melach and her husband had a child. His name was Emmanuel Radnitsky. He was teased in his youth about his name and later on became Man Ray. The family eventually moved to Brooklyn. As a child h...