Word: cubism
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Immovable Object. If everything Picasso painted up to 1906 were subtracted, it would leave no real gap in the history of modern art. But in that year Picasso began his advance to Cubism. Perhaps the first unqualified masterpiece in his career was his portrait of Gertrude Stein (14). "Picasso," Stein recalled, "sat very tight on his chair and very close to the canvas, and on a very small palette, which was of uniform brown-gray color, mixed some more brown gray and the painting began...
...anyone else in this century, has produced: a densely sculptural image, hieratic and masklike, more compact almost than matter itself. Picasso's absorption of "primitive" shape (he had spent a lot of time with Iberian and Egyptian sculpture that year) was now complete, and the way to Cubism was open...
...specialist in Cubism and in late 19th and early 20th century art of France, Robbins said, "I think a museum, especially a university museum, should link present to past, not turn into a Museum of Modern Art, but be in the broad spectrum of activities without being doctrinaire. Art comes out of other art, out of the recent and the remote past...
...reconstitutes it on the ground glass, are-on the evidence of the work in this show-rather less successful. They are consciously "art" and often end-like the 1963 photograph of Picasso's face melting in facets through one of his canvases-as a surface parody of Cubism...
...made us possible. But Monet did not labor for the sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom he met somewhere around...