Word: cubistic
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...specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
Kenneth Lipstreu makes a living designing layouts for advertisements, paints in his spare time. His Transformer applies Picasso's cubist experiments of 40-odd years ago to the present-day industrial scene. Perhaps because it sticks to an established tradition of abstraction, his picture is much easier to take, and also to forget, than Motherwell...
...Artist Rufino Tamayo (commissioned last year in the hope that it would help eliminate anti-Mexican prejudice in Texas). Titled El Hombre, the mural shows a monolithic, foreshortened giant, his back to the viewer, growing like a strange modernistic tower into the sky. His legs, bulging with orange-colored, cubist muscles, are firmly earthbound; but his upper half reaches into the stars. Explained Artist Tamayo: "I wanted to show man as a rational being going to higher places." Dallas, by & large, was delighted. Mayor Bob Thornton grunted appreciatively: "Looks like he's got his feet in the mud . . . Been...
There's no need 40 rely on that overworked standby--the pearl. Be original! Be sporting! Why not amble into a sporting goods store and deck your ears with a realistic fish spinner, in sparkling cubist colors--guaranteed to get any date to bite...
...London last week, the art patrons evidently agreed. By the time the show closed, Cubist Ghika had sold 17 of his 38 (five are loans) pictures, one for a thumping ?1,000 ($2,800). Said London's Telegraph: "No living British artist commands such a price in our art galleries today, except possibly Augustus John...