Cubism Paintings & Artworks

Featured Cubist Fine Artists

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He died in 1973 at the age of 92 in Mougins, France. He first studied art under his father, Jose Ruiz, who was a painter and art professor. Picasso studied art at the Academy of Arts in Madrid, but left after one year. In the pre-war years at the start of the century, he divided his time in Madrid and Paris. Picasso's artwork went through several periods, including the Blue and Rose Periods (1901-1907), African Period (1908-1909), and Cubist Period (1909-1919). In his mature years from the 1920s on, he painted in a more personalistic style, combining abstract, surrealistic, neo-classical, and political influences. [More...]

Georges Braque was born in 1882 in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France, and died in 1963 in Paris. He studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Originally influenced by the Impressionists and the Fauvists, he is best known for founding, along with Pablo Picasso, the Cubism school of painting, the primary inspiration for which was Paul Cezanne. [More...]

Juan Gris was born as Jose Victoriano Gonzales-Perez in 1887 in Madrid, Spain. He died in 1927 at the age of 40 in Paris, France. After studying mechanical drawing and painting in Madrid, he moved to Paris in 1906, where met the pioneers of the Cubism art movement, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. [More...]