Word: cubistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of great and (for this generation of museums and their public) definitive exhibitions, done at the highest pitch of scholarship and curatorial skill: late and early Cezanne, Picasso, Manet, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Watteau, Velazquez, Poussin, up to MOMA's current show of Picasso's and Braque's Cubist years and, perhaps, Seurat to come...
...Dartmouth 42-35 Year to Date 16-8 Michael Stankiewicz Asst. Sports Editor Cornell 24-20 Penn 13-2 Princeton 30-16 Dartmouth 35-25 Year to Date 15-9 Casey J. Lartigue Cube Lord Harvard 34-31 Penn 23-9 Princeton 17-6 Yale 27-6 Bentley Boyd Cubist Cartoonist
Cubism has never gone soft; it remains, after 80 years, mysterious, challenging and resistant. Neither Picasso nor Braque said much to explain what they believed they were doing. Their Cubist work contains no ideological positions, dramatic subject matter or easy anecdotes. It disdains narrative and sentiment -- a severe test for Picasso, whose Blue and Rose periods had been full of both. (On the other hand, both men's paintings and collages were seeded with puns, sly allusions and In jokes: when the fragmentary writing on one of Picasso's paintings from 1912 declares that "Notre Avenir est dans...
...show. You get an overwhelming sense of plastic energy from Picasso's drawing of volume, but that is a different matter. Neither he nor Braque was out to propose a systematic alternative to one-point perspective as the key to making things look real. There was no system to Cubist shuttling and lapping. Which does not mean it was anarchic, but rather that Picasso and Braque made up their coherences from passage to passage, from inch to inch of the canvas, rejecting the "timelessness" of traditional painting as they went...
...other hand, everything to do with proposing infinite relationships between things and seeing how many of them at a time can make visual sense. You still cannot walk into the Cubist room. But that is partly -- or so the paintings quietly argue -- because you are already in it. It is the space of relativity, the benign and long-lost mental space of the early 20th century, when newness still seemed paradisiacal...