Word: cubism
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...spent six months in a sanatorium, followed by four years of convalescence. "Those were the most valuable years," says Hjorth. "I began thinking and experiencing nature.'' Finally cured. Hjorth switched to sculpture, went to Paris to study with Rodin's famed pupil. Antoine Bourdelle dabbled in cubism, finally found his artistic forefather in Paul Gauguin...
...pioneers in U.S. abstraction, John Ferren, says the movement began as an instinctive agreement on a set of negatives. The painters turned against regional painting ("The Iowa farms painted by Grant Wood seemed to us like dream fantasy images'"), against the rigid structure of cubism, the cliché-ridden images of surrealism-and against the Government-commissioned mural painting of WPA. Above all they were revolting against the awesome dominance of Paris painting and the long shadow of Pablo Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same...
...Picasso, then the surrealists, finally broke through to a style of his own combining strange anatomical images and fragments of observed nature. Emerging early as the most noted was Pollock, hailed by some European painters and critics as the first great innovator in modern art since the birth of cubism-and hooted at by others. Wrote Critic John Russell in London's Sunday Times after seeing a Pollock painting in 1956: "I will not say that I was prejudiced against Mr. Pollock's picture by the fact that he made it by pouring the paint onto a flat...
...China and Korea. Gallerygoers readily identify the unchanging gabled houses still found in country districts, and the traditional peasant women's dress. Art lovers see even more in Haniwa. Wrote one Japanese critic: "Haniwa's geometrizing of natural forms is exactly in tune with the dicta of cubism. Artists are now ready to accept Haniwa as 'pure art' and as delightful, intuitive jugglings of basic sculptural forms...
...World War II nightmares, spent four days in 1942 in a Trappist monastery that "transformed" him. Today he tries to "create works which reflect my thirst for harmony and unity." His "meditations in paint" are vivid abstractions that combine warm, bright Fauve-like colors with the restrained forms of cubism. ¶ Jean Dubuffet, the chief barnstormer for "I'art brut" (raw art), who mixes a thick paste of colors with sand and even ashes, constantly changes his style because "I am unstable and anxious." Using as his point of departure children's scrawls...