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...loan for the next 15 years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced "a little sur prise" gift from his private collection: a Rose Period oil called La Famille, two big, brand-new Picassos done in his contemporary style, and a watercolor study for his first cubist work, Les Demoiselles a"Avignon, a painting which shocked some of his fellow artists but which changed the course of art history when he painted...
...Picasso's monuments, represented by the model for the recently installed Chicago Civic Center sculpture and a photomontage of a heroic female figure to be installed in The Netherlands. The smallest are the impish, effervescent, often forthrightly erotic metal cutouts. Brightly painted and deftly bent, they look like cubist paintings in 21 dimensions-and, by a curious coincidence, 21 dimensions is what dozens of younger painters are going for right...
Died. Ad Reinhardt, 53, prophet of minimal art; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting as a cubist, Reinhardt gradually reduced color, texture and deign to almost jet-black canvas squares, with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...
Laurens was reserved but receptive to his colleagues' cubist ideas, soon began experimenting with painted geometric sculpture. Eventually the female superseded other subject matter. Since Laurens never used models, he was free to invent: an arm became a jai alai basket, limbs were omitted or dramatically extended. If his early cubist works were all angles, taut as strings, his later ones had the liquid rhythm of the sea. That breakthrough came in 1931, when Laurens visited the Mediterranean seacoast. From then on, his sculpture looked as if it had been tumbled in a million waves rather than shaped...
...Cubist Eyes. Without question, one of the most popular features of Expo is Czechoslovakia's Kino-Automat, which is as much an audience-participation show as is a happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...