It’s rare to find a piece of biographical art history as readable and enjoyable as Cézanne, A Life by Alex Danchev. That’s partially because Cézanne makes for a perfect subject: a brilliant mind ...

Post-Impressionist French painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is credited with having led the way from Impressionism to Cubism and the dramatic changes in the 20 th Century's art world. The current ...

Cézanne once observed that everything in nature could be broken down to three fundamental geometric forms: spheres, cones, and cubes. That idea, of course, was the inspiration for Picasso and Braque's ...

Cubism is famous because its artists developed a new visual language (or representational regime) that announced a definite and radical break with the tradition of naturalism in Western art. Cubism ...

The retrospective show of Georges Braque cleanly installed at the Museum of Modern Art, its solid catalogue, Braque’s notebooks, each page adorned with stubby doodles, and the handsome exhibit of ...

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” ...

Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career. Standing within the first gallery, I ask myself: If Cézanne means an ...