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Saul Steinberg is surely the best cartoonist since Picasso. Picasso was an artist who degenerated into a cartoonist. Steinberg is a cartoonist who has metamorphosed into an artist. The difference between them is intellectual honesty. Viva Steinberg...
...show, which includes over 100 pieces, catalogs every step of Davis's career. Davis started out painting realism and moved quickly out of that stage under the influence of European post-Impressionists and cubists. Indeed the first two rooms of paintings strongly echo Picasso, Gris and Leger. Davis, as the chronology points out, was heavily involved in artists organizations, especially during the Depression, and campaigned for recognition of the political and social importance of art and artists. After the Depression, Davis developed some of his most important theories and settled into a style using brilliant colors, well-defined shapes...
...drawing. The drawing works because he so obviously possesses each style. It is imitation without flattery. As a dandy, Steinberg owns all the hats in his wardrobe. A still life like Belgian Air Mail 1971, is not a "cubist-type" drawing, a thing done in homage to Braque and Picasso. It is rather a drawing about cubism, seen as one stylistic mannerism among others in the art-historical supermarket...
...recognition in the U.S. for painters of his native France; in New York. After serving with distinction in the French, Greek and American armies of World War I, Seligman immigrated to the U.S. in 1921 and inherited his father's art business, Jacques Seligmann & Co. Germain championed Picasso, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec as well as earlier French artists whose work had escaped critical acclaim...
...intelligent artist in Northern Europe, after the work of Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really...