Word: cubism
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Bouncier than Bach. That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay. Although he rejected the association, Kupka churned out whorls of saturated color, dazzling fingerprints of the spectrum. With his paintpots, he set cubism on fire...
...introduced Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and abstract expressionism to England and the Continent. European critics at once recognized that the postwar New York school had the innovative strength, technical skill and independent-minded vision to go its own way without regard for the school of Paris-which, since the cubism, surrealism and dadaism of the first quarter of the 20th century, has contributed nothing conspicuously...
Estorick's modern artists seem mostly pre-Kandinsky in style. Hardly a trace of surrealism, cubism or abstractionism shows; the most obvious influence...
Oddly, Mondrian's art paralleled the rather raw expressionism of his countryman, Van Gogh, until he was 37. Then, influenced by cubism, he began simplifying what he saw to horizontal and vertical lines. Flowering apple trees, building fronts, jetties into the sea soon dissolved into what he called "plus-and-minus" rhythms. He wrote that he was searching for a higher "reality detached from the transitory reality of forms...
JACQUES VILLON - Thaw, 50 East 78th. Fifteen paintings trace a life-long love affair with art, from a youthful Portrait of the Artist, who had not yet courted cubism, to The Environs of Rouen, when he had wedded it to his own luminous impressionism. Through April...