Word: cubism
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Breathless (in French). Formless, flashing cinematic cubism, based on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another...
This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett...
...watching his ancient neighbor Claude Monet paint his lily pond. He went to Chartres and was overwhelmed by the cathedral windows, in Paris became the friend of Picasso, Miró and Braque, before returning to the U.S. for good in 1939. He passed through an impressionist phase, dabbled in cubism. But the rise of Hitler convinced him that any art not primarily concerned with moral and spiritual issues...
...resident, arrives in the U.S. to get an honorary doctor's degree next week at Brandeis University. Sounding somehow like a Somerset Maugham character, he told a Manhattan newswoman: "When one is young, one thinks of a goal in art. One talks. One reacts-as I did against cubism. But when one is older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after his departure? Replied Chagall, who believes that most artists pick their basic themes early in life: "Cezanne...
...second to none in the world. I refer the reader especially to two of the landscapes, Arbres Formant La Voute (1906) and Citerne au Parc du Chateau Noir (1895-1900),--in these water-colors the broken planes and volumes show the new dimension of time which the "Grandfather of Cubism" tentatively proposed as an extension of the three-dimensional perspective space system perfected by the Renaissance and exploited into trompel'oeil mediocrity by the Academics of the 19th century. Also impressive among the Cezanne works in the first floor gallery, is the painting Le Tholonet (1906) in which the unfinished...