Word: cubism
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...Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass for Picasso and argued for hours over cubism, symbolism and the other innovations...
...short, Alice was forced to sell Picasso drawings that Gertrude had willed her. She became embroiled with Stein's relatives in a court battle over the rights to 28 Picasso paintings in the collection that Stein had left her in trust. The fabulous collection from the age of cubism, which was consigned to a bank vault, will now go to Stein's relatives...
Instincts & Desire. With the exception of cubism, which Picasso invented in collaboration with Georges Braque, Picasso created no school and leaves behind few disciples. After 1914, modern art would have existed with or without Picasso, much as 17th century Dutch painting would have continued with or without Rembrandt...
...probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that heralded the beginning of cubism. Only outstanding omission: the Modern's 1937 Guernica, which the museum considered "too fragile to travel...
...board embedded with hand compasses; a cubbyholed compartment with cork balls, alphabet blocks and a seashell; or a case containing 15 shot glasses called Petite Musée. They are all symbols shorn of obvious symbolism, junk treasured to jangle the imagination. The work has roots in the cubism of Braque, where newspaper clippings were glued amid the oils, and branches embracing the Dada of Marcel Duchamp. But Cornell's intent is neither to fracture space nor make satire...