HONG KONG, March 15 — More than a century ago, Pablo Picasso smashed the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris into a web of tangled ...

Everything changed with the advent of Cubism when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso introduced collage ... African art manifested itself in mask-like faces and stylized bodies.

Matisse, whose own still life of lemons had recently been criticized, saw how Picasso was pushing the genre towards cubism ... provides a ghostly mask-like face, likely quoting the white African ...