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Article: From Picasso to Pollock: classics of modern art: highlighting the aesthetic vanguard from Cubism through Abstract Expressionism, this wide-ranging exhibition features works by some of the last century's most influential artists.(Museums Today)
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- USA TODAY
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- September 1, 2003
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FORMULATED by Pablo Picasso and his Parisian colleague, Georges Braque, Cubism offered new possibilities for rendering three-dimensional objects on the two-dimensional picture plane; images are fractured into myriad small facets and depicted as if seen from several viewpoints simultaneously. Excellent examples include Picasso's "Accordionist" (1911) and Braque's "Violin and Palette" (1909). Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes, and Juan Gris elaborated on Picasso and Braque's interpretation of Cubism, tailoring it to their own sensibilities. Through the evolving experiments of these painters, Cubism became more expressive in its range of subject matter and ...
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