Word: cubist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center will comprise paintings of Cubist and Abstract artists as well as Surrealists. My interests are entirely neutral and my home is by no means the center of Surrealism but is open to all artists in whose work I believe...
Baffled little Jacques Lipchitz was famed in pre-war Paris as the world's greatest cubist sculptor. He fled to the U.S. from Unoccupied France last summer with four of his ponderous bronze statues, no money. This week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip...
...would not cry over the white city's antiquities, Imperial Russia's Golden Head, the 40-times-40 spires. But he would brood if anything happened to the parachute tower in the Park of Culture and Rest. He would be angry when the new buildings, neither garishly cubist nor grotesquely baroque because he personally had censored the architects' renderings, were bombed. He, for whom the beautiful miniature locomotive at the Technical Institute was named, would be alarmed if the ten great railways radiating from the Capital were cut. He would be hurt every time a statue...
Last week, on Manhattan's 57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally...
...Tait. "I want to see gloom banished from the grey industrial areas. I want great simplicity in design, good proportion, more light, more color, more lakes and more fountains. . . . Needs and modern materials will dictate our architecture. It will have to be functional but it will not be ugly, cubist or arrogantly advanced...