Browsing: Cubism

Chagall places a red-costumed acrobat above a distorted city, combining balancing pole, floating face, architecture, color, and weightlessness into a lyrical image of love, art, and fragile equilibrium.

Picasso combines a seated model, simplified bust, red tripod stand, balcony railings, flat color, and doubled profile to explore Representation, artistic creation, ideal form, and the boundary between painting and sculpture.