Word: cubism
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...There is no doubting, however, his early aptitude for art. At ten he was enrolled in art school, and at 21 he won a scholarship to study in Europe, where he spent 13 years imitating the masters and searching for a style of his own. In Paris he discovered cubism and turned out many fashionably cubist paintings. He also discovered women, who were violently attracted to this massive, whimsical "Mexican cowboy" who seldom bathed. He kept two mistresses at the same time and had children by both...
...shadow, he once wrote, "I felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion or in the presence of a new divinity." His paintings of the bridge made him the foremost U.S. adherent of futurism, the Italian-born industrial-minded art movement that added space to cubism in the blurring and breakup of the realistic image...
...Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations of Modern...
...ship is sinking," Jean Cocteau mourned last week when he was told of Edith Piaf's death. It was a typically melodramatic lament for the waning of a French world that began with cubism and ended, more or less, with existentialism. Several hours later, Cocteau himself died of a heart attack at the age of 74. In one day France had lost both an esthetic arbiter of its intellect and a guardian-or at least a mascot -of its heart...
...sphere and the cone." Braque found his cylinders, spheres and cones in still life-guitars, jugs, cigarette packages, knives and newspapers -and he projected his internal emotions into this world of objects. He painted few human figures, confessed that he found the human form ugly. While his comrade in Cubism, Picasso, was sensual, Spanish, and an endless innovator, Braque was rational, French, and restrained. As Braque explained in 1917: "The senses deform, the mind forms. Reality grows out of contained emotion. I like the rule that corrects the emotion." But from his penchant for paradox, he added, "I love...