Word: cubism
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...many years now, the vocabulary employed in the explanation and criticism of works of art has been hurled with almost crushing force at the innocent and unsuspecting layman. Such words as "Impressionism", "Cubism", and "Futurism", have been bandied about with such utter freedom and carelessness, that the intelligent individual, having a normal interest in modern art, has often been forced to throw up his hands in despair and mutter something about "artificial catchwords". Well, it is true enough that any categorizing term used in the sphere of the aesthetic is nothing more than a valiant attempt to oversimplify...
...Cubism and Abstract Art (March...
...during the 19th century. But they are of considerable value and should be highly praised because of the fresh and stimulating way in which they carry on a tradition, the beginnings of which are not far behind us. In the hands of the great majority of contemporary artists, the cubism of Cezanne, the effective grotesqueness of Van Gogh, and the myriad contributions of other men too numerous to mention, have taken on a prosaic and domestic dullness. A tradition, in order to thrive, must be continued in the spirit of its originators. Stevens and Jones, together with others whose paintings...
Rivera had his first taste of revolution in the Mexican revolt of 1910, when such folk heroes as Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
...hands of Georges Braque, who took it up almost simultaneously, of Juan Gris, a young Spaniard who took it in 1911 and made it charming, and of Picasso, cubism made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that a red patch seems to advance and a Violet patch to recede, to the most ingenious refinements All paintings, as painters see them, are merely areas of certain colors on flat canvas. Cubism made pictures which everybody could see that...