Word: cubism
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...five painters and sculptors without drawing wholesale fire from all sides. The day is not long past when on the one hand Picasso and Matisse were charged with anarchy or incompetence or when, on the other, Bonnard was denounced as a "decadent impressionist" or Chagall as a "reactionary from cubism." More than half the artists exhibited are now deceased and almost all are very much the product of environments no longer to be found anywhere on the globe. In more ways than one these twentieth century works are the inheritance of our time rather than the products...
...Hartford, Conn., where it will be fitted to the steel frame of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem to shift, melt and glide...
...discovered the charms of the small town of Céret near the Spanish border, and was soon surrounded by vacationing Montmartre friends, including Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. But though living in the midst of early cubist experiments-French critics called Céret "the Barbizon of cubism"-Manolo would have none of it, once snapped at Picasso, then at work on his cubist Accordionist: "What would you say, Picasso, if your parents were to come to fetch you at the station in Barcelona and found you with such a fright?" Instead, Manolo stuck to the classic tradition...
...More Geometry." The year was 1910, and cubism was becoming the rage. Delaunay took the drab monochromes, static angularities and enclosed planes of cubism and filled them with light, air and movement. "Light deforms everything, breaks everything-no more geometry," he wrote. Assiduously following his theory, Delaunay painted his famed series of the Eiffel Tower (see color page). The tower exploded under the impact of light, defying the law of gravity, ignoring geometry. A new eye and an original brush had brought both a dynamic and lyrical note to cubism...
...Gogh's age when he committed suicide) Mondrian had almost paralleled Van Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose...