Word: cubism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Pierre Roy has always been a painter, has given many a nourishing meal to the founders of Cubism. Though Derain, Picasso, Giorgio (horses) de Chirico are still his good friends, he has been influenced by none of them. Slowly, painstakingly, he has developed his own style. He takes about six months to finish a picture. The 42 canvases exhibited last week represent most of his life's work-28 of them already belong to various collectors...
...Matisse, but never a member of his early group of insurgents, Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), Pablo Ruiz Picasso has theories on art and believes in them. With remarkable technical ability, he might easily have become an adept forger. From his early days as one of the founders of Cubism he has been ceaselessly experimenting, changing his style of drawing, his palette. His studio in the Rue de la Boétie is precise as a laboratory, he is meticulously exact in keeping appointments. He is not only one of the highest priced* but one of the most scientific modern...
...scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
...responsible for all that architecture. . . .' Imagine Michael Angelo coming to dine with friends and being welcomed with the words, 'We have just ordered a very beautiful Renaissance sideboard inspired by your Moses.' Think of Michael Angelo's face. . . . Some try to turn Cubism into a kind of physical culture. ... I try to paint what I have found, not what I sought. . . . The idea of 'Research' led some of our painters to abstraction. That was, perhaps, one of the greatest mistakes of modern art. . . . [They] tried to paint the invisible. . . . Men have tried to explain...