Word: cubists
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...that somehow achieves a visual harmony. An imposing Fernand Léger dominates the far wall with a Matisse nude tucked away nearby; on the other side of the broad rectangular room, where Renaissance objects of bronze and silver intermingle with sumptuous art-deco furniture, an elaborate cubist Picasso masterpiece - Instruments de musique sur un guéridon, 1914 - hangs above a Cézanne watercolor of a French landscape, which hangs over a sleek, black bookcase hosting a perfect little female portrait by the 19th-century master Ingres...
...most important names of twentieth century, including sculptures by Brâncusi and a painting by Picasso. According to Helen Molesworth, Head of the Harvard Art Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art Department, “It adds to the strengths that we have in cubist painting [and will] make them deeper and richer...
...Louvre will receive $900 million for the use of its name and for temporary loans of up to 300 works, a "leap into the unknown." As for contemporary artists, he points out that they've long had a place at the Louvre; both Eugène Delacroix and the Cubist artist Georges Braque painted ceiling panels in the museum, and Loyrette recently commissioned American artist Cy Twombly to do the same. "I'm not inventing or adding anything," he says. "I'm just renewing what has always been done...
...comes from multiple sources. One, obviously, was Hieronymus Bosch. Another was the decorative art of Islamic Spain, with its precise yet often hallucinatory stylization of animal and vegetable shapes; the first sign of its incursion into Miro's work is the 1918 Standing Nude, whose sturdy body, pleated with Cubist (or at any rate, cubified) wrinkles, poses against a drapery covered with arabesques and birds. And then there were the mosaic inventions of the Catalan artist Josep Maria Jujol, who was working for Gaudi when Miro was a teenager, and whose wandering line and isolated words set in tile clearly...
...just as fervent about bringing in contemporary artists. He argues that they've long had a place at the Louvre, noting that both Eugène Delacroix and Cubist Georges Braque painted ceiling panels in the museum; Braque's 1953 paintings adorn a 450-year-old carved ceiling in the former royal antechamber. In the same vein, Loyrette has commissioned American Cy Twombly to paint one of the museum's last undecorated ceilings. "I'm not inventing or adding anything," he says. "In a way, I'm just renewing what has always been done...