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...

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...