Word: cubism
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...aesthete of some pretension, some understanding and much enthusiasm) graduated to modern art via Cezanne, whose work he began to buy in 1904. Her second brother Michael concentrated on the paintings and bronzes of Henri Matisse. Gertrude herself liked Picasso and Juan Gris. "Americans can understand Spaniards," she wrote. "Cubism is a purely Spanish conception, and only Spaniards can be Cubists" -thus cheerfully disregarding Braque...
...example of Cubico-futuristic tommy rotting. Leo, the man of taste, hated it; Gertrude, the illogical intuitive, loved it. Perhaps neither recognized that it represented a major change in human visual experience. Just how emphatic that change was can be seen in a huge retrospective of the history of Cubism opening this week at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...canvas. Transformation of all parts of American life had to occur before art could break from copying. Once American tradition established itself, visions of an art that would achieve the mastery of Europe twirled in the eyes of Americans. The best recent art in this country goes beyond the cubism of Europe and its abstract inventions...
...long last, the record is being put straight. Last fall the Arts Council of Great Britain accorded Biederman the accolade of a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery. Proceeding from Biederman's early wrestlings with Cubism to his serene, harmoniously colored structurist reliefs (see color opposite), the British show made clear that 30 years of dogged independence and fierce dedication had paid off in an inner consistency and an all too rare freedom from fashion...
World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...