Word: cubism
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...FOGG Old Wedgwood through May 27, and Harvard Wedgwood through June 17, Illustrated Books From the Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs, through June 24, Picasso and Cubism, through May 6, Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sunday...
...siecle Barcelona, into the Blue and Rose periods, with their dystrophied and consumptive clowns, absinthe addicts and acrobats. By 1907, Picasso's combativeness and his goading sense (which never entirely left him) of being up against history's wall resulted in the wrench of imagination that provoked Cubism and provides an arbitrary point of departure for all that is most convulsive in Picasso's art and modernism generally: Les Demoiselles d'A vignon. His eclecticism -another of the virtuoso's traits-produced incessant raids on other styles, from Pompeian murals, 17th century Dutch etchings...
...pinning-he would revert to his original shape and utter prophecies. So with Picasso; and some of the deepest and most durable work he produced was made when he was, if not pinned down, at least constrained by shared responsibility. Thus his co-invention, with Braque, of Cubism: that system of anchoring and interlocking forms in space that proved to be the first workable (though less systematic) alternative to Renaissance perspective in modern...
Eros. The view that Picasso's main contribution to modernity was Cubism is not, however, just. Cubism was an inexpressive system, and therein, admittedly, lay much of its beauty. But Picasso was also a master of expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist...
...most versatile figure of modern art. A constant self-overcoming from his earliest period to his latest bore witness to a mind of astonishingly original genius. In the years between the beginning of the century and World War I, he led modernism through the initial innovations of cubism, and carved out a territory which the painting of today continues to inhabit...