Word: cubist
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...Marc's later works show the influence of not only the tense social climate surrounding him but also the new and diverse artistic trends that proliferated during this time. In the last painting of the exhibit, "The Stables," we can see how Marc was influenced by the emerging Cubist movement. With its fragmented planes and kaleidoscopic shards of color, the viewer must squint hard to pick out the horses from the surrounding stables. The effect, once again, is a remarkable merging of subject and background into one unified consciousness...
Because Chatwin knew everyone, and because most of them are still alive, Bruce Chatwin becomes at times a group portrait of an entire world--sophisticated, cutting and articulate--that cannot stop talking, fascinated, about the Cubist harlequin who ran on self-delight. "He was constantly gyrating on his own axis," his patient and devoted wife Elizabeth said, "to cause a sensation, to find a sensation." Another friend noted, "I have seldom met a human being who exudes so much sex appeal with so comparatively little niceness...
...years old when he made this painting, which is remarkably late for an artist to find his major style," Cooper said. "That grid of lines you see in cubist paintings has become the entire subject, and whatever still-life objects there might have been within that grid have been dismissed...