In the early years of the 20th century, painting fractured. Perspective, which had governed Western art since the Renaissance, was no longer sufficient for the modern world — a world of industrial speed, scientific discovery, and shifting perception. In the cafés and studios of Paris, two young artists, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, dismantled theContinue reading “Cubism: Shattering the Picture Plane”
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Dora Maar: The Radical Eye of Surrealism
In the pantheon of 20th-century modernism, few figures are as enigmatic as Dora Maar. For decades she was remembered primarily as Pablo Picasso’s lover — immortalized in fractured portraits of weeping women, her anguish refracted through the painter’s cubist lens. But Dora Maar was far more than a subject in someone else’s story. She wasContinue reading “Dora Maar: The Radical Eye of Surrealism”
My World of Interiors 