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A new exhibit on Mexican artist Diego Rivera looks at his portraits from the several years in Paris when he focused on Cubism. "Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917" opens Sunday at Southern ...

Between spring and winter 1909, Picasso executed more than sixty portraits of his companion, Fernande Olivier. These works--produced in a variety of formats and mediums--exhibit a range of artistic ...

Just like the incongruous features of his cubist portraits, Pablo Picasso’s disparate artistic styles, mediums and interests create a remarkable whole. Over his long and prolific career, Picasso ...

I was always afraid of Cubism. It wasn’t an I-just-don’t-get-it-and-that-scares-me kind of fear, but an I-just-don’t-get-it-yet-I’m-sure-that-if-I-did-it-would-make-me-afraid kind. I was afraid of its ...

This painting by the artist Pablo Picasso is an example of a portrait close portraitA picture of a person, normally the face. made in the cubist style. Cubist art shows objects or people from many ...

“I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them,” Picasso said. Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the forty-one-year-old New York artist, paints people as he feels them, not as they look. His fragmented ...

From her photograph, Fernande Olivier hardly appears a likely muse for the 20th century’s most influential artist. In the black-and-white picture, a simple dress hangs loosely over sloping shoulders ...

You won’t learn from this show how Picasso actually tore apart the portrait form as a way of seeing If you have ever been fooled by sensationalist biographies that caricature the 20th century’s ...