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...young of the 60's. For example, Ernest Trova's images of falling men--symbolic protruding bellies on smooth, molded gold forms--are pleasing rhythmically but do little to encourage the viewer's further exploration. In contrast to Trova's rather redundant imagery, are such masterpieces as Picasso's Cubist Portrait of Wilhem Uhde, Miro's playful, surrealistic compositions, Giacommetti's unique delineation of space in portraits, and the Russian, Naum Gabo's eliptical construction of string and plastic...
Although Picasso's Uhde seems to be a frontel bust, the lapels of his jacket flip through spatial planes in the Cubist tradition of dislocating space. The head too assumes a multitude of positions, as if the artist is superimposing several perspectives on one surface, a photographic technique in oil, providing an insight into the more complex facets of this particular character...
Hindsight makes it seem inevitable that Mondrian, believing this, should move away from objects. But in its period, Mondrian's road toward total abstraction was as audacious as it was lonely. In 1911, he first saw some cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque at a show in Holland. His pictorial intelligence could not resist the challenge. But the concrete, specific nature of cubist painting hindered him. Thus Mondrian's paintings after 1911 show him wrestling to keep the integrated pattern of Cubism while dispensing with solid form. Tree (1912), with its sober tones of gray, green and brown...
...hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that it presented the artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso withdrew slightly from it, and for the next several years...
...CUBIST DECADE: 16. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-1907; 17. Bread and Compotier with Fruit on a Table-1908; 18. After the Ball-1908; 19. Still Life with Liqueur Bottle-1909; 20. Woman with Pears-1909; 21. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard-1909-10; 22. Le Mandoliniste-1911; 23. Ma Jolie-1911-12; 24. Le Torero, Ceret-1911; 25. Still Life with Chair Caning-1912; 26. Still Life-1912; 27. La Suze-1912-13; 28. Still Life with Fruit, Glass, Knife and Newspaper-1914; 29. Green Still Life-1914; 30. Harlequin-1915; 31. Three Musicians...