Word: cubism
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...artist, and it was already obvious that his time was short. His lungs were bad. A black-eyed, elegant young fellow, he kept to himself, painted furiously, and destroyed most of it as he went along. Soon Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo and Brancusi took him up, introduced him to cubism, African sculpture, and cafe life. The combination freed him from his academic inhibitions: he began painting pictures that were worth keeping. Then he set about destroying himself...
...Minors. André Lhôte, 60-year-old modern, whose cautious cubism has been largely overshadowed by his giant contemporaries, showed a carefully composed Bordeaux in My Youth, which seemed real without being at all realistic...
Picasso still experimented with his own brand of cubism, and distorted figure painting. Woman in Blue Waist showed a seated figure against soft green. Woman in Armchair added to Picasso's cubism a pinwheel-and-tinsel fantasy...
...Modern Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such workers in the International Style as Germany's Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow...
...With every fresh retreat they dug themselves a new redoubt, hoisted a flag and proclaimed a new ism. Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...