A History of Cubism

The emergence of one of the most influential movements in modern art

Christopher P Jones
Thinksheet
Published in
9 min readJun 20, 2019

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Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), 1910, by Pablo Picasso (detail). Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Source Wikipedia

The course of Pablo Picasso’s life may have been very different had he not made the acquaintance of the art collector Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. As a young painter in his mid-twenties, Picasso was largely unknown and living in a state of near-poverty in Paris. At a time when he painted Les Demoiselles D’Avignon and…

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