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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – When Pablo Picasso was 27 he spent the summer in a village in his native Spain, drawing and painting odd angles and curves that looked only a bit like his beautiful French mistress. They ...

HOW’S this for a cubic feat? Artist Hazrat Mammadrzayev created a Stephen Hawking portrait entirely from Rubik’s Cube pieces. The 22 year old arranges a side’s coloured tiles then places them in rows, ...