Word: cubist
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...prick. But the bubble is never blown; from the first scene, Niven is represented as little more than a passive scratching-post for a pack of pampered cats. But suddenly, in the last scenes, he turns into the father image-sober, sound, sententious, and yet as modern as a cubist grandfather's clock. In the meantime, the moviegoer has weltered through a series of vaguely amusing scenes that go nowhere almost as fast as the well-known labyrinth dream...
...other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting that quietly reaffirms Mies's famed dictum that "less is more...
...Soviets have been gradually rehabilitating the impressionists, despite the Communist dictum that men like Renoir "reflect modern bourgeois realities.'' Last spring, in its show of French moderns, the Hermitage moved further, hung 20 Matisses, 17 Gauguins, 19 Cézannes, 21 Monets and 24 pre-Cubist Picassos. But it will probably be years before the full glory of Soviet modern-art acquisitions is considered safe enough to be seen. Modern art is still suspect. Says cautious Hermitage Director Mikhail Artamonov: "Modern Western art is not uniform. Some new paintings are quite unacceptable for us, though doubtlessly there...
...become the purest fire-spitter of all. His greatness is displayed this week in an 87-painting retrospective at London's Tate Gallery. The show reaches back to the beginning, to such paintings as Trees at L'Estaque (see opposite), which is one of the first Cubist paintings. While Braque was creating it. Picasso was following the same route. So the two joined forces, as Braque puts it, "like mountaineers roped together," and in five brilliant years of cubism proceeded to tear down some 400 years of art convention and mount the 20th century revolution...
...never consciously and after mature reflection became a cubist," said Gris, "I have never had to think about it like some one outside the movement." When he finally tried conventional portraits, he wrote his friend, Art Dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: "It's fun for me all the time to learn how it is done ... I always thought it was far more difficult...