And at Sotheby's last month, Picasso's "Femme à la Montre" ("Woman with a Watch") became the most expensive painting to be auctioned this year, selling for $139.4 million. Sotheby's art handlers ...

Since its early days Hollywood has likened films to art and filmmakers to artists, acknowledging art's impact on cinema, writes MARTIN A. GROVE. By Martin A. Grove, The Associated Press “Picasso” ...

Few artists have enjoyed the stature and legacy afforded to Pablo Picasso, the famed painter who ushered in the art style known as Cubism and whose name became synonymous with masterpieces of artistic ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the ...

“Painting the Blue Period” at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., gives a glimpse of the artist before he came into his own with Cubism. By Blake Gopnik WASHINGTON — An expert on Pablo ...

Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum has trumped Tom Hanks and his high-tech Da Vinci Code shenanigans by using Apple's iPad as a virtual museum guide for their Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, ...

It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Pablo Ruiz Picasso. With his bold shapes and characteristic angles, the Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to ...

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 ...