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Why is the Demoiselles d’Avignon regarded as one of the most important paintings of the 20th century?

Juan Gris is a popular Spanish painter and sculptor who is closely associated with the Cubist movement. He was just as emblematic for it as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Some of his most famous works are Portrait of Picasso, Man in the Café and Landscape at Caret and Livre, Pipe et Verres.

Insights into the life of one of the most renown names in the world of art.

Insights into the life of this surrealist genius.

The Japanese have a wonderful relationship with their manhole covers: they treat them as art. Here is a selection of the ornate, the artistic and the ever so slightly bizarre.

A fundamental difference between Picasso’s two forms of art.

Juan Gris, a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, has produced some fascinating cubist artwork. Here’s a glimpse.

Discusses the interplay between Modernist and ‘primitive’ techniques in Cubist art.

A much-discussed aspect of Cubist paintings is their depiction of objects from several viewpoints.

The use of a conceptual approach can best be illustrated with reference to portraiture.