Modern & Contemporary Art

Pablo Picasso’s efforts in creating the Cubist style revolutionized the art world. But what lies behind the twisted and tortured figures he depicted?

We know that Vincent van Gogh was a tortured artist who ended his life, but what if there was a different ending to his story?

Niki de Saint Phalle was a twentieth-century French-American artist known as one of the few female sculptors who worked on a monumental scale.

Pop Art and Surrealism share a number of themes, such as critiquing consumerism, exploring celebrity culture, and questioning social hierarchies.

The Spanish Surrealists responded to the bloody conflict with heartbreaking art, political activism, and even more turmoil within their art movement.

French artist Fernand Léger went from Impressionism and Cubism to abstraction, then returned to traditional figurative art expressed through modernist vocabulary.

Fernand Léger’s experience in the trenches changed his perception of art and transformed a bourgeois artist into a fighter for workers’ rights.

Although many people are familiar with the art historical term “Orientalism,” today, far fewer know about the man who coined it.