Word: cubism
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Stieglitz arranged to send Hartley abroad in 1912. With such sponsorship, Hartley found himself welcomed into the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and its animated talk of abstraction, of analytical cubism, of form vs, content. Soon Hartley was painting variants of Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Cezanne and most of all of Kandinsky. He called his new style "subliminal or cosmic cubism...
Franz Marc and the Blue Rider group welcomed him; Kandinsky discoursed to him on the law of form. Hartley was also in love with a handsome young German officer, Karl von Freyburg. He evolved the style Haskell so admires, a kind of syn thetic cubism heavily studded with military symbols and panoply, most conspicuously the Iron Cross itself. Von Freyburg was killed in the early months of the first World War. The result was the Portrait of a German Officer, which even incorporates Von Freyburg's initials in its lower left corner...
...Russian-born artist, an immigrant from Kiev, has become one of the indispensable points of reference in American art as a whole. Her walls of wooden boxes, painted black, white or gold and containing arrays of scraps and found objects, occupy a unique mid-point between the grids of cubism and the dream landscapes of surrealism, displaying a tough analytical sense that is at the same time drenched in fantasy...
Part of the achievement of her work lies in the way in which she adapted the rationale of cubist composition to more mysterious ends. "Cubism gives you a block of space for light, a block of space for shadow," Nevelson has said. "Light and shade are in the universe, but the cube structure." transcends In and sum, the translates nature encompassing into ambition of Nevelson's work is to make a continuous surface so full, so engrossing and so minutely articulated with variety of detail that it can work as an abstract metaphor of nature itself...
...maestro, designing sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, marrying one of its dancers, and allowing a conventional style of portraiture, often as insipid as the $3 million Acrobat sold to Japan in last week's Garbisch auction, to alternate with a highly decorative form of cubism. "Decorative," of course, is no longer a cuss word, and his best flat-pattern cubist paintings of the early '20s, with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when...