Word: cubism
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GEORGES BRAQUE. The artistic revolutionary who, with another young firebrand named Picasso created cubism and I altered the course of modern art, died last year at 81. Four galleries bring together the largest showing of his work ever -some 200 paintings and sculptures on loan from American collections and benefiting the Public Education Association...
...time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long shot, Wyndham Lewis...
...years in art that Villon called "a long love affair." It was a happy one that mellowed and matured with the man, and it is tellingly revealed by these 15 oil paintings. The earliest is a 1909 Portrait of the Artist; he is young, bearded, not yet taken with cubism. The latest is The Environs of Rouen, painted in 1960, luminous proof of how apt was his self-summation as a "cubist impressionist." Through April...
...Richard Lindner's latest show at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery suffer an uninformed urge to link his art to the latest fads of the newest artists. But Lindner is 62; his paintings are a liaison with the past and Europe. Groomed by Dada and formed by cubism, he shows how the art that shocks today is resolutely linked to the art that shocked yesteryear...
Died. Alexander Archipenko, 76, Ukrainian-born sculptor who in 1909 shocked Paris by giving a third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...