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That may not have been evident at Betty Parson's Manhattan gallery, where Pollock watched the guests snort in puzzlement. Later came the reviews ("monotonous intensity"). The sales? Two canvases. But within the American avant-garde, a world consumed by disputes that consumed him too, the show was a loudly argued challenge. When the mostly skeptical mass media came around, the Abstract Expressionists, who had been germinating for years, exploded American art onto the world stage for the first time...
AUDIENCE & A MONOLOGUE. Immerse yourself in cutting-edge avant-garde theater in a wizened old space. Written and directed by Dan Poston ’03-’04 and presented by the Leverett House Arts Society, this experimental one-act aims to engage the audience more than the usual stage production. Runs Thursday, March 6 through Saturday, March 8. Tickets $4-$6, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Leverett Old Library...
...recondite mazes of Cubism, so open, so impregnable, are what followed. Very soon, with the ferocity and radical distortions of a single canvas, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso would turn every other artist into cannon fodder and take from Matisse the leadership role within the avant-garde. Georges Braque and Andre Derain, onetime Fauvists, defected to Picasso's camp. In time Picasso would even usurp Matisse's position in the affections--and worse, in the collection--of Matisse's once devoted patron Gertrude Stein...
...patch of the group of disciples, on that terrible emerald-green sea ... what an inspired conception!" He had read about Impressionism, too, but imagined it to be simply the use of lighter tones. In Paris he discovered such older painters as Monet and Pissarro, and met the young avant-garde of the day: Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Bernard. His old palette went out the window ("Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers," he wrote in 1887, "so I could get used to colors other than gray.") He experimented with Impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist "stippling" - one superb gallery here...
Today, the Brattle’s teeming schedule of classic, avant-garde and new independent films draws a diverse crowd from Harvard and Cambridge...