Word: cubistic
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...colleague of Singmaster's with the inimitably British name of Morwen B. Thistlethwaite is believed to be the first cubist to have realigned the puzzle in 50 moves. Mathematician Thistlethwaite claims that "50 is not very good. It should be possible to do it in 20, but no one has yet found a method." Unlike scientists, who concentrate on plotting specific procedures called algorithms that will reduce the number of necessary moves, brainy young cubers seem more interested in setting speed records. One English high school student, Nicolas Hammond, 16, has managed to unscramble a cube in 28 seconds...
...twiddler who can solve all six sides is known as a cubist or cubemeister. Rather than risk such status, most mortals might better heed the advice of Marc Ingenoso, a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin: "I think it's wise never to pick the thing...
...manipulative analysis of form. In the catalog, Tinterow explains the formal changes in Picasso's art during this intensely prolific summer. Another especially rich period well-represented is that of the early 1930s. The Studio of 1933 is an intriguing work that Tinterow says is related to Picasso's cubist works because it is a "juxtaposition of multiple states of reality in a single work." This complex still life incorporates many earlier specific themes and drawings into one image, giving new meaning...
...ever been. The very idea of avant-garde activity was of something "special," open to small coteries of people who needed to know a lot of other art in order to appreciate the subtleties of the New. Modern art looked esoteric because it was. To see how a cubist Braque or Picasso from 1911 connected to the realities of modern Life, with its quick shuttle of multiple viewpoints, its play between solids and transparency, its odd tensions between signs, letters and numbers on the one hand and extreme painterly ambiguity on the other, demanded the kind of sympathetic attention that...
...early bronzes and terra cottas were heavily influenced by French Cubist Sculptor Henri Laurens, and their dominant rhythm was taken from Mayan art-a blockish, crankshaft-like sequence of shapes. They may have been stylistically uncertain, but they were powerful, and on seeing them, a leading New York dealer named Nierendorf gave Nevelson her first one-woman show, in 1941. She was past 40, an age when some artists start thinking not about their debuts but about their retrospectives...