Word: brancusi
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...magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks will catch more than a glimmering of what astounded and enthralled the eyes of great artists as different as Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Brancusi and Matisse...
...last busts, Madame X, barely more than a lopsided oval of wax, Rosso nearly dismisses the tactile world entirely. The mystery lady's features are barely perceptible, pulled to one side in a manner presaging Picasso, the surface as sleek as a latter-day Brancusi...
Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful photographs of his Paris friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter...
...Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi to make his U.S. debut in their show, arranged for paintings by Braque and Picasso...
Cradle of Expressionism. Says Rhodes Gallery Director Frank McEwen: "The great attribute of African traditional art is expressionism-and the Africans had it centuries ago." As everyone knows. Picasso. Braque, Brancusi. etc., admired and copied African art. "The entire modern movement in Western art owes a debt to primitive Africa, and that is the point we are trying to make with this exhibition." McEwen says. "It is a fact that very few artists of contemporary style do not possess some well digested but evident influences of Africa...