PABLO PICASSO, 1932, Norton Simon Museum. The most surprising part of the image is the bottom left. Three sharp triangles of white,...

ÉDOUARD MANET, 1878, Getty Museum. The composition is mostly empty space. The street is our protagonist, supported by its adjacent...

WILLEM DE KOONING, 1955, Getty Museum. A dove gray ground—thin, soft, vulnerable. A smear across the abdomen, flattening everything....