Word: cubism
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...Another great Russian capitalist collector was Ivan Abramovich Morosov, who competed fiercely with Shchukin for the paintings of Matisse and Picasso, fell behind because he could not accept cubism...
...local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed in on. Their reordering of the classical tradition was carried on by Poussin and the neoclassicism of Ingres; their concern for formal harmonies is still alive in cubism and 20th century modern architecture...
...such paintings as Trees at L'Estaque (see opposite), which is one of the first Cubist paintings. While Braque was creating it. Picasso was following the same route. So the two joined forces, as Braque puts it, "like mountaineers roped together," and in five brilliant years of cubism proceeded to tear down some 400 years of art convention and mount the 20th century revolution...
Montmartre bistro-dance hall Chez Frede and to talk fondly of his and Picasso's revolution. "Cubism still exerts a strong influence," he says. "Its possibilities are far from being exhausted. Cubism was not so much a new system, but rather a new 'forme d''esprit.' Of course, many fakers and would-be artists have tried their hands; they have cubized all nature. But true artists still find new inspirations in cubism...
Braque, whose collaboration with Picasso ended when he went to war in 1914, kept in his postwar work only so much of the early cubism as helped him toward the summit of his ambition-"the painting of space." Says Braque: "A still life lends itself particularly well to this effort. You should have the feeling that the objects almost stand out from the canvas, that you can physically touch them...