Pablo Picasso, it is said, worked until the day he died at the age of 91 on April 8, 1973. This weekend marks the 50th year since the Spanish artist’s passing. Five decades on, we are still grappling ...
Le musée Picasso à Paris célèbre à partir de mercredi les anniversaires de deux toiles illustres de Picasso, les Demoiselles d’Avignon de 1907, qui fonde le cubisme, et Guernica, la ville basque ...
Installation view of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) at the Museum of Modern Art (via Phil Roeder/Flickr) While the painting is widely considered a canonical and important Modernist work, no one is ...
AS THE 20th century dawned, Paris was seething with new ideas. They were batted about in cafés, discussed in newspapers and analysed in literary magazines. As in the rest of Europe the city’s culture ...
An introduction to Les demoiselles d'Avignon / Christopher Green -- Les demoiselles d'Avignon and the exhibition of 1988 / John Golding -- Painting as trauma / Yve-Alain Bois -- 'To kill the ...
"This painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was painted in 1907 and is the most famous example of cubism painting. In this painting, Picasso abandoned all known form and representation of traditional ...
The confrontational painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon has been both widely despised and loved, and over the decades has remained contentious. A century after it was created by Picasso, acclaimed US ...
The conservation laboratory at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a brightly lit sanctuary where 20th-century masterpieces are brought for cleaning, restoration and, in case of damage, repairs.
The conservation laboratory at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a brightly lit sanctuary where 20th-century masterpieces are brought for cleaning, restoration and, in case of damage, repairs.