Many historians consider Still-Life with Chair Caning as the first work of art which contains both painting and collage. Created by Pablo Picasso in 1912, it is composed of oil paint, fabric, and oilcloth, framed by a simple twined rope.

"To treat nature by the cylinder, sphere and cone, with the whole put into perspective, so that each side of an object or plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give extent, either a section of nature or, if you prefer, spectacle which the pater omnipotens aeterne deus lays out before our very [Read more]