Word: cubists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris knows, Jean Lurçat's rosy dream might come true. Europe is in the midst of a tapestry boom, and Lurçat can take much of the credit. A onetime cubist painter, he started designing tapestries shortly before World War II. His idea was that most contemporary work, modeled on the tastes of 18th century boudoir muralists, was too fussy and too expensive. Lurçat drew up designs with a simpler look, chose a few basic colors, and hired weavers at Aubusson's famed factories to turn them out. His 1946 show...
...century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...
RAYMOND, who died in 1918, was one of the first and ablest cubist sculptors. His powerful, beetle-browed bust of Poet Charles Baudelaire showed that he also had an impressive gift for conventional portraiture...
...BUSY TO PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT-YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract...
Lyonel Feininger's section includes fine, sketchy prints and cubist canvasses. Although his oils are certainly interesting, none of them is particularly vivid or eye-catching...