Word: cubism
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...real' nature, have always given me the impression of something as stupid as it is fake," De Chirico wrote later. He was speaking of theater, but the preference is equally true of his early painting. De Chirico had intelligently brought some of the flattening devices of Cubism to bear on a wholly anecdotal art. The fragments of memory found their distorted space; the means...
...Cubism cut away enough points of reference in painting so the viewer couldn't tell if he was looking at a concave or a convex object," Mailer elaborates. "In Maidstone, I was making an attack on reality. Fact and fantasy keep coalescing." Mailer admits that he is not the first to have made such an assault on tradition. Although the names of Buñuel, Dreyer and Antonioni are evoked in Maidstone, Mailer believes that his strongest single influence was the San Francisco film maker Bruce Conner, whose dazzling short works (A Movie, Cosmic Ray and Report) constantly explore...
...first saw some cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque at a show in Holland. His pictorial intelligence could not resist the challenge. But the concrete, specific nature of cubist painting hindered him. Thus Mondrian's paintings after 1911 show him wrestling to keep the integrated pattern of Cubism while dispensing with solid form. Tree (1912), with its sober tones of gray, green and brown, preserves the rhythm of branches in its arabesque of lines but remains as flat as a stained-glass window...
...Avignon (16), struck Picasso's fellow artists as little short of mad. André Derain feared it presaged Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that it presented the artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention...
...Impressive as Picasso's Cubism now seems, it won no immediate public recognition for its creator. That came only in 1917, when Impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design a new ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra...