Word: cubism
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...countries behind the Iron Curtain, Poland has most successfully kept alive its cultural ties with the West. One of the hardiest roots has been the long Polish tradition of abstract art, some of whose practitioners date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling...
...York and finally to Paris, where he fell under the spell of the Fauvists (the Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that his brand of cubism was derivative. One day he picked up a panel of butternut wood from a broken-down bureau, used it to carve a block for a print, thus learned the fascination of sculpture...
...become the inseparable companion of an artist named Amédée Ozenfant, and at the advanced age of 31, Jeanneret began to paint too. The two friends published a manifesto called After Cubism-"an optimistic, lyrical song on the beauty and lesson of machines, on buildings for use, and on the part played by science in an art worthy of our time." To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau. The most important pieces were those on architecture, on which the two editors often collaborated and which Jeanneret signed...
...decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
Breathless (in French). Formless, flashing cinematic cubism, based on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another...