Word: cubists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composed of interlocking planes of soft, clear color, Afro's abstractions look rather like shattered Venetian glass seen through a watery film. His colors are very much his own, but his compositions are not; when reproduced in black & white they appear to rest solidly on the cubist experiments of Braque and Picasso. Afro's close harmonies of color and texture also reflect his long apprenticeship as a decorative artist. His delicate yet decisive lines and contrapuntal arrangement of shapes show a draftsmanship that comes only from long study...
Amid suits of armour, medieval altarpieces and tapestries, 50 cubist and surrealist works of Paul Klee went on exhibition in the Germanic Museum yesterday. The collection received a varied reception...
Juan Gris was an artist who earned respect, if not popularity. His severely cubist paintings, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, were mostly classics of their kind. Gris's favorite props-wine bottles, clay pipes, books, newspapers and guitars-were crowded into compositions as slick and tight as nylon stockings. They were neither completely representational nor completely abstract, for Gris believed the two elements were like the warp and woof in weaving, inseparable...
Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think...