2D DESIGN

Many people recognize names like Pollock and de Kooning, but far fewer know of female artists like Lee Krasner, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Lee Bontecou who m...

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Among the great modern artists of the past century, Francis Picabia also remains one of the most elusive. In this short film, MoMA curator Anne Umland explai...

Learn how to paint in the Cubist style of artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in this latest episode of MoMA's IN THE STUDIO with Corey D'Augustine. See...

Use the Gestalt principles to make your designs more coherent.

Georges Braque, Le Viaduc à L'Estaque, (The Viaduct at L'Estaque), 1908, oil on canvas, 28-5/8 x 23-1/4 inches or 72.5 x 59 cm (Musée national d'art moderne,...

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Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, oil and oilcloth on canvas framed with rope, 29 x 37 cm (Musée Picasso, Paris), speakers: Dr. Beth Harris ...

Pablo Picasso, The Guitarist, 1910, oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm (Centre Pompidou, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steve...

“The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening.”

For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists st...

In this color theory video Thomas Bosket explains the illusion of transparency where two colors appear to overlap and create a third color.