Word: cubism
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...when the cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque began to appear in Paris, Archipenko fell under their spell. He was perhaps the first (historians disagree) to bring cubism to sculpture. Today his work of that great period (see color} seems as vital as it was when it was done in the years before the first World War. But if these show Archipenko at his most memorable, they do not fully reveal...
...Shredded Image. In his own work, he has always been an experimenter. In some of his early prints, there is the same emotional quality found in the German expressionists. He flirted with cubism, fell briefly under the surrealists' spell, was for awhile strongly influenced by the shredded image of Picasso. "But my great teacher," he says, "was the Depression. There were lots of ugly things then...
...least controversial: his stature is so enormous, his gifts and influence so overwhelming, that even the most conservative critics are apt to forgive his occasional tendency to showmanship and shock. His very restlessness sometimes seems a form of dilettantism, but every art movement from cubism to collage to abstraction, has felt his presence. In the entire history of art, no one man has offered so many ideas or seemed to find so many ways of looking at the world. To a great extent, Pablo Picasso is a history of modern art in himself...
...masters of a museum of nonobjective art tend to be those who led art to eliminating the image. The show begins with Cézanne's famed Clockmaker, a portrait whose rugged angularity foreshadowed cubism. Next come...
Braque's finest works; both have musical instruments as their theme, but they also undertake to show the instruments' rhythms. Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower is cubism at its most liquid, as if it were a scene reflected in a pool of troubled water, A few feet away, Delaunay uses powerful swirls of clashing colors to prove that "color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than...