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Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think...
Fauvism or cubism...
...makes little difference where one studies the record, whether of surrealism, dadaism, abstractionism, cubism, expressionism or futurism. The evidence of evil design is everywhere...The question is...who has brought down this curse upon us; who has let into our homeland this horde of germ-carrying art vermin...
...Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...
...qualities saved Villon's new work from being classed as "second-period cubism," i.e., art that derives from the early days of Braque and Picasso but dilutes their experiments into decorative and fairly understandable patterns-something for the living room. The first quality was the clear cold space in Villon's landscapes: deserting table-top still lifes, he had found a little of the space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime...