Word: cubism
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Because Picasso's vision was predominantly sculptural, his new rules had mostly to do with form. He thought it might be interesting to break up the forms in nature and rearrange them on canvas-cubism. Matisse was most excited by colors; he did roughly the same kaleidoscope stunt with them-and took art back to the days of the Byzantines and medieval monks, whose flat, glowing illuminations symbolized instead of trying to counterfeit reality...
Alberto Giacometti, their creator, a gentle golliwigged man now living in Switzerland, had spent a lifetime to achieve them. Born in 1901, Giacometti has passed from impressionism to cubism to surrealism and was dissatisfied with them all. The son of Switzerland's first great impressionist, he began drawing at five. He laughed at his father's landscapes ("Why do you paint this tree? You don't have to. Don't you see that it is already there?"). His father let the boy paint pretty much as he pleased, gently correcting him whenever he could...
...when he recalls that when they were children "everything Gertrude tried to cook turned out badly, but I made bread and apfelstrudel-which is very difficult. . . ." But he declares that Gertrude didn't take up Picasso until Picasso had gone wrong, i.e., cubist. Leo's case against cubism is cogently argued...
...space fashionable in the 20th. Glimpsing a solid geometry in nature, Cézanne spent most of his life trying to apply it to art. Seen close up, his later paintings, such as Gardanne (see cut), look like Cubist abstractions and were, in fact, the point at which Cubism first left the world behind...
...Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no ism." When a reporter cornered the old, thin man at the opening of his Boston show to ask who were his favorite painters, wry, shy John Marin had his answer ready: "Myself...