Word: cubism
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Even the drawing in Sleeping Beauty is crude: a compromise between sentimental, crayon-book childishness and the sort of cute, commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From...
...Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933. Feininger at last came home to Manhattan, to sail his model boats on the pond in Central Park as he had as a boy, and to paint in the midst of war the most joyful canvases of his career. The school-of-Paris cubism he brought back with him helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink...
...paintings show the white light and black-clad poor of Spain and Italy with tenderness if not much power. Cubism is perhaps her stumbling block; one can hardly see the people for the planes. But her semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling...
...after his first awed exposure to the explosive colors of Van Gogh and a chance meeting with Fauve-to-be Andre Derain. Vlaminck became famous overnight after shrewd Dealer Ambroise Vollard bought a collection of his dashingly hued, bold-lined canvases in 1906. He dispiritedly followed other Fauves into cubism, but soon drifted away from Montmartre coteries. After World War I he retired to the country, became bitterly contemptuous of modern art ("Abstract paintings give me a toothache"), reserved his choicest scorn for his most famed contemporary: "Picasso is the gravedigger of French...
...find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks Lipchitz with such sculptors as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Brancusi and Giacometti) to say: "From the early days of cubism to the present, Lipchitz has been in the forefront. He has extended the whole conception and technique of bronze casting...