Word: cubism
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...various points it seems to relate more to alien cultures than to itself. Shown on the following pages are an early stone puma that resembles nothing so much as an ancient Chinese bronze, a gold figurine that looks like a Javanese puppet, a double-image vessel that prophesies cubism, and a portrait head worthy of Sir Jacob Epstein...
Arriving by Retiring. The son of a tobacco planter, Cossio was raised in a hamlet near Spain's north coast. A childhood accident left him with a permanent limp. At 16 he went to Madrid to study art; at 25 he was in Paris hobnobbing with Braque. Cubism fascinated him; from it he developed a prismatic quality of composition. But the turmoil of Montmartre was no lasting fun for so indrawn a man, and after nine years he retired to his home town. There he painted in solitude, almost unknown...
What London saw were 38 paintings as clean and clear as light mountain wine. Ghika's style is closest to cubism, but a cubism tempered and refined with a solid, realistic touch. On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing...
...Academic Ranson, but soon gave it up. Ghika got his own studio, met Picasso, Braque, and Jean Arp, and learned the hard way. At first, he copied the impressionist manner of Renoir, then progressed to Cézanne and Seurat, and finally found what he was looking for in cubism. When Ghika held his first Paris show in 1927, it was a near sellout...
From 1906 on, Matisse's sculpture became more & more distorted as he flirted with cubism. The Tate exhibit shows a vigorously lumpy Reclining Nude, a small Torso with Head, unnaturally swaybacked, with cubes for breasts. As in his paintings, Matisse often did several studies leading up to a final sculpture; there are four heads of Jeannette, the first a standard, lifelike portrait, the last a fiercely distorted impression, squeezed and hacked out of shape...