Word: cubistic
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...artist's most original style is revealed in metal pieces fashioned from scraps of steel and nails and welded into wire-like constructions. Here his style is modern but not international in the anonymous sense of the cubist, futurists, or constructivists. It has a definite Spanish flair...
...Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang in a bullfighter's dressing room. Well into his cubist period at the time...
David Sheppard's "Jazz Band" mirrors Picasso's cubist period but no "staircase" angles challenge the rhythm of curves. Modifications of other European styles sprinkle the walls. More typically American, in the tradition of Ben Shawn, is Beverly Hallam's "Evolution," which shows a row of children exhibiting their paintings to the class. She catches the boys' expressions "Look at mine" and "What's his like" as well as the little girls' embarrassment...
...Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as Vegetable Garden (opposite), is a consistent favorite, and calm as Cream of Wheat. Edging the leaders in popularity are Picasso and Cubist Georges Braque. The still lifes which Braque specializes in are nothing if not decorative, and their complexity helps offset the chill nakedness of many modern interiors...
...exhibition of pre-World War I Picassos that opened last month in Paris was one of the delights of the season. The 49 paintings ranged from the Blue Period Harlequin and His Companion (1900) to cubist arrangements, such as Violin and Glass (1913), and included some of the finest works of the young Picasso. But last week, after the show had attracted capacity crowds since its opening, the whole affair was abruptly called...