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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Hear art curator William S. Rubin discussing seminal influences on Cubism, especially as developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
Britannica's Guide to Art Movements Juan Gris: The Sunblind
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Cubism summary
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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm
Cubism: Art and Artists
Detail of the Chrysler Building, New York City, New York (photographed in 2007).
Everything in Art and Design (Part Three) Quiz
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Art texture. Close-up of yellow abstract painting. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
10 Modernist Art Movements
Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.
Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
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Date 1908 - 1929
Related Artists Pablo Picasso • Le Corbusier • Piet Mondrian • Paul Klee • Marcel Duchamp • Georges Braque • Albert Gleizes • Fernand Léger • Nadezhda Andreyevna Udaltsova • Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova • Malvin Gray Johnson • Gino Severini • Ivan Albertovich Puni • Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov • Stuart Davis • Wifredo Lam • Francis Picabia • Jacques Villon • Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun • Aaron Douglas • Jacques Lipchitz • Alexander Archipenko • Max Weber • Roger de La Fresnaye • Juan Gris • Robert Delaunay • Arthur B. Davies • Pablo Gargallo • Bradley Walker Tomlin • Raymond Duchamp-Villon • Henri Laurens • André Lhote • Pierre Reverdy

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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Juan Gris: The Sunblind
Hear art curator William S. Rubin discussing seminal influences on Cubism, especially as developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm
Cubism: Art and Artists
"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm
Cubism: Art and Artists
Detail of the Chrysler Building, New York City, New York (photographed in 2007).
Everything in Art and Design (Part Three) Quiz
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Art texture. Close-up of yellow abstract painting. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
10 Modernist Art Movements
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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.
Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?