Word: cubists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the fireworks factory blew up; to Rome's Toti Scialoja, 41, for a low-keyed study in a lyrical cubist style. Not until the honorable mentions did the first U.S. painters appear: little-known Pittsburgh Artist Marjorie Eklind, 31, and this year's leading U.S. Prizewinner John Hultberg, 33 (TIME...
...Yvette, France. Regarded as one of the masters of School-of-Paris art, Leger (rhymes with beige-hay), the son of a Norman farmer, went to Paris in 1898 to study painting, earned his living as a photo retoucher. In 1910 he experimented with and abandoned the cubist techniques of Braque and Picasso, was later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living in the U.S. for 4½ years during World War II, he painted The Builders, which won this year...
Villon's father, a stern Norman notary named Duchamp, sent him to Paris to study law. The youth took up painting instead, changed his name to conceal the fact. Later, two brothers and a sister joined him on Montmartre. One, a cubist sculptor, called himself Duchamp-Villon. Painters Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase} Duchamp braved their father's wrath by using the family name. Marcel was by far the most successful artist of the family, but he was bored by his work. He finally gave up painting for chess...
Villon kept hard at art. He was not so much bored as boring -a dry and impecunious cubist. He made a living from newspaper cartoons, architectural renderings and engravings of paintings by his more famous friends. Meanwhile, decade by decade, his art mellowed, the cubist dregs dissolved, and the professorial dryness came to be replaced by a joy in life. At 70, he began to receive the homage of painters young enough to be his grandchildren. Now, at 79, he is among the prides of Paris...
...never showed together again, their revolt made history. It led to Manhattan's first independent show (no jury, no prizes) and paved the way for the 1913 Armory show, a landmark event that first gave the U.S. public the full impact of Europe's postimpressionist, fauve and cubist painters (sensation of the show: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...