Word: cubism
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...last major show anywhere in the world of the French landscapists known as the Barbizon school took place in Manhattan in 1889-and shortly after that came the deluge. Successive waves of impressionism, cubism, and finally abstractionism swept them from museum walls and sent their prices sinking in the auction houses. What had been considered fresh and vigorous, later generations found sentimental and dull. But lately the Barbizon school has been undergoing another re-evaluation-upward. Currently on a tour of U.S. museums is the biggest Barbizon exhibition-113 paintings-since that Manhattan show 73 years ago (see color...
...Cubists Were Square. The Armory Show made its point, and it made movements like cubism so popular with collectors that those who failed to embrace it were thought to be square. Even Davies experimented with angular nudes, but they turned out more prismatic than cubistic. Soon Davies found not only his style but also his life altered, for he grew weary of backing a movement with which he had no basic affinity. Always a mystic, he withdrew increasingly into seclusion...
...League. Davis' next teacher was the 1913 Armory Show, which he saw when he was not yet 20. It was sheer emancipation to see that Van Gogh and Gauguin used color, not as nature had it, but almost arbitrarily in accordance with artistic instinct. Davis also discovered that "cubism allowed you to form the concept of the object as you saw it from different views." When he had absorbed the show, he knew what direction he would take: "I would be a modern artist. So easy. Except for one small matter...
...seeing an exhibition of Braque's paintings in 1908. Louis Vauxcelles, the critic responsible for the term Fauves, noted that Braque. "a very bold young man." seemed to reduce everything to "cubes." Soon, the word cubism was a part of art's vocabulary. Picasso had also begun experimenting with geometric planes, and when he and Braque met. they formed a partnership. Picasso called his friend "Pard." an expression gleaned from the silent western films then popular in France, and the two men painted so much alike that even they sometimes had difficulty telling who had painted what...
...Cubism did away with Renaissance perspective, which, said Braque. "forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach." It also confirmed something that men had always known but rarely recorded: that objects seen close up tend to dissolve, fragment and multiply. This fragmentation, said Braque, "helped me establish space and movement in space. I couldn't introduce the object until I had created space...