Word: cubism
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Georges Braque, 68, collects and polishes old bones to embody in the ceramics he is making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into...
...ceramics. A big, heavy old man of 70, Derain lives in an 18th Century mansion outside of Paris, draws for two or three hours a day in the park surrounding his house. In his youth his art reflected first Matisse's use of brilliant colors, and later, cubism. Since then it has grown steadily more simple and calm. Derain's subjects and his manner of painting them are never startling, but their clarity and order hold the eye. "The great danger for art," he says, "lies in an excess of culture. The true artist is an uncultured...
...Resurrection, which now hangs in London's Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel...
...face and contemptuously protruding lower lip, he speaks in a forbidding rumble. Modern art, curiously enough, is one of his pet hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced bodies (TIME, May 16), make Epstein smile. "A good cheese is not interesting because it's got holes...
Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...