Word: cubism
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...girl on her way to school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly 4,000 smartly rendered pictures--never brought Rockwell acclaim in the inner circles of art that embraced everything from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art during his long career. Now a huge survey of his work is being launched at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and landing six stops later at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But for all the overexertions of the catalog...
...never ran a political campaign or managed the career of a $20 million-a-picture star, but Rand, whose work is the subject of this elegant coffee-table book, remains one of the country's important imagemakers. A legendary postwar graphic designer, Rand drew on the ideas of Cubism and Constructivism but interpreted them playfully in countless print ads and book jackets, and ultimately in the corporate logos for IBM, Westinghouse, ABC and others. The book is a must-have reference for all modernists...
Picasso was not a philosopher or a mathematician (there is no "geometry" in Cubism), but the work he and Braque did between 1911 and 1918 was intuitively bound to the perceptions of thinkers like Einstein and Alfred North Whitehead: that reality is not figure and void, it is all relationships, a twinkling field of interdependent events. Long before any Pop artists were born, Picasso latched on to the magnetism of mass culture and how high art could refresh itself through common vernaculars. Cubism was hard to read, willfully ambiguous, and yet demotic too. It remains the most influential art dialect...
...most powerful element in the story--at least after Cubism--was sex. The female nude was his obsessive subject. Everything in his pictorial universe, especially after 1920, seemed related to the naked bodies of women. Picasso imposed on them a load of feeling, ranging from dreamy eroticism (as in some of his paintings of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter in the '30s) to a sardonic but frenzied hostility, that no Western artist had made them carry before. He did this through metamorphosis, recomposing the body as the shape of his fantasies of possession and of his sexual terrors...
...weekend, Glimp told the young Salvador Dali, "I like the watches, but why are they all so hard? A watch should be soft." Later that day, he bumped into Henry Miller and startled him by shouting, "Your stuff is boring! Get some sex into it!" Once asked about Cubism's debt to Glimp, Picasso angrily replied, "No! No! He did rectangles, he did hexagons, maybe once or twice a polyhedron, but he never did a cube...