Word: cubism
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Lawrence called his style "dynamic Cubism," but although its debt to late Cubism is obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...
...unfaltering sense of design, every black line in its right place, not a slippage in the stripes and Benday dots. Its flat, posterish colors will read with infrangible aplomb. It will parody other art, as in the past Lichtenstein's work has parodied everything from Art Deco to synthetic Cubism, from Franz Marc's horses to Monet's versions of Rouen Cathedral, from Mondrian's squares to the generic brushstroke of late Abstract Expressionism. It will have a number of concealed jokes for the art-initiated, often genuinely funny ones -- as when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance...
These pieces highlight the childlike drawing style for which Klee is known. He drew his figures with spontaneous, thin black lines and did not rework them. The fragmented figues show the influence of Cubism on hiswork but this playful style set him apart...
...discover in Paris a means of using his local identity; he took what he needed (not only from Picasso but also from Max Ernst and much lesser figures like Hans Bellmer, and even from Jean Cocteau's hypermannered / line drawings) to find what he was. Lam's version of Cubism was more illustrative than Picasso's. The figures in his best-known painting, The Jungle, 1943, are like renderings of sculpture standing in a space deduced from Cezanne...
...much further back than either Lenin or the 1917 Revolution. They lie in the liberal, high-bourgeois culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a culture that pullulated with avant- garde splinter groups and wild chiliastic claims, exquisitely attuned not only to Russian traditions of religious mysticism but also to Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism and other currents in Paris, Rome, Vienna. To imagine that the work of spiritually obsessed artists like Kandinsky or Malevich had any filial relationship to Marxism is to miss its meaning. Malevich, an egomaniacal genius who called himself "the president of space" and imagined that his art could...