Word: cubism
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...mountain-carving Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in which he writes: "Mrs. Logan has said: 'Art is colossal. . . .'" This is followed by a few brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance. ... I have been called an iconoclast...
...public's mind temporarily off art but at its end French artists were sitting on top of the world. U. S. painters, unable to sell at home or abroad, tried copying the French, turned out a profusion of spurious Matisses and Picassos, cheerfully joined the crazy parade of Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism. Painting became so deliberately unintelligible that it was no longer news when a picture was hung upside down...
Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...
...came from Philadelphia over 20 years ago. His first exhibition of paintings was held at the Daniel Gallery in 1915. At that time he was an ardent cubist and bewildered conservative critics with his angularities. In 1921 he went to Paris, where he has remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots of bits of landscape, nudes, egg beaters and pieces of wire have caught the fancy of French advertisers. Besides portraits of his friends, he has become financially success ful as a commercial photographer. Last week...
...invention of photography in the last century painters had subconsciously realized that representational art was dead, bested by the camera. And so while many painters insensitive to new influences continued to push painting to the extreme boundaries of realism, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and their followers developed abstract expressions, Purism, Cubism, etc. But their theories were based on the assumption that man possesses a sixth sense, the so-called aesthetic sense, which vibrates in response to pure forms, colors, arrangements, proportions, divorced not only from reality, but also impoverished by the elimination of meaning, of literature, history, humanity, tragedy and comedy...