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Cubism. Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Pablo Picasso. / 43.554142; 5.604438. Pablo Ruiz Picasso[ a][ b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of ...
The art of painter and engraver Émile Frédéric Nicolle, his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and make music together. Of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp's seven children, one died as an infant and four became successful artists. Marcel Duchamp was the brother of:
Juliette Roche. (m. 1915–1953) . Albert Gleizes(French pronunciation:[albɛʁɡlɛz]; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubismand an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzingerwrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912.
El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation by the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis.
Gustave Courbet. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( UK: / ˈkʊərbeɪ / KOOR-bay, [ 1] US: / kʊərˈbeɪ / koor-BAY, [ 2] French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) [ 3] was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic ...
Robert Delaunay. Robert Delaunay ( French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dəlonɛ]; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; [ 1] who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract.
Abstract Expressionism was seen as rebellious and idiosyncratic, encompassing various artistic styles, and was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the Western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.