Word: cubism
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Along with The Queen's Lover, incidentally, the Brattle offers an outstanding short on art, entitled The Experience of Cubism. An Italian production, the film provides some real analysis of technique in addition to the usual minute reproduction of canvasses. Also, there is a beautifully-photographed short on fountains in Rome, and even the Bugs Bunny cartoon is unusually clever...
...suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Garches, France. A member, with Rouault and Matisse, of the uninhibited Fauvist movement in Paris at the turn of the century, tall, simplicity-loving Artist Derain ("The great danger for art lies in an excess of culture") later dabbled with cubism, finally turned to a personalized style of calm, uncluttered elegance that put him among the world's most respected painters...
...poor Jewish grocer, Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia, has carried a memory of his homeland through a life of wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella...
...Museum of Modern Art, which was staging the biggest Lipchitz retrospective show ever held in the U.S. The 98 pieces of sculpture and 15 drawings covered the entire work span of Lipchitz' life-from 1911, when he modeled conservative academic pieces, through his first experiments with cubism, and down to his current, free-swinging style...
...turned out a picture that is as solid and durable as anything done in the last 100 years. The portrait of a skilled and self-respecting artisan, it has glowing warmth and quiet dignity. In spirit, the picture harks back to Rembrandt; in technique, it points forward to cubism...