“Glancing at one or two of Braque’s paintings in a casual stroll through a museum cannot compare with experiencing, side by side and chronologically, many of the great paintings that established him ...

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies. When Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, Matisse said he and Picasso were “as different as the north pole is ...

This exhibition explores the history of abstract painting, and its ties to the future. Beginning around the time of abstract painting’s birth, it presents abstraction’s rise, the trends that ...

It is nearly impossible to convey the original impact an artist from the past had on his contemporaries. What matters is his artworks’ impression in the here-and-now. But art and artists don’t exist ...

Twentieth-century Indian modernism reflects a complex interplay between the legacies of British colonialism, the nationalist movement for Independence, and the evolving realities of a transitional ...

When Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett decided to study with the artist André Lhote in Paris in 1921, they were consciously taking a step away from the certainties of realism and into the unknown realm of ...

Both a witness to and a participant in the birth of modernism, the Irish painter personified the experimental art of early 20th-century Paris. By Michael Prodger The painter Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) ...