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...figures in Matisse's La Danse, 1909, and the red-hot metallic forms of The Woodcutter, 1912, are a Tolstoyan version of Leger's "tubism." Aviator, 1914, plays with the standard emblems of Cubism -- printed words, a hat, an ace of clubs. But it has to be the only Cubist painting with a sturgeon...
...confidently as they did without the security of her liberal, upper- middle-class background, the way of life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become literal in 1915: painted cardboard still-life sculptures inspired by Archipenko...
...reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide-and-seek in the rigid scaffolding of a Cubist grid, look somewhat less than fully achieved...
...popular culture, or with the recent "high" culture of the '80s, at all. As the clippings pile up, one may expect to see many variations on these themes. One, common to both, is that the show has too many familiar works -- as though there were a slew of undiscovered Cubist, Surrealist or Pop masterpieces lurking out there, miraculously ignored by the world's museums...
...study for Woman, had a smile cut from an ad for Camel cigarettes. The work does not appear in the show. There are shallow passages: the bay devoted to Russian Constructivism, Futurism and the Bauhaus, for instance, is mingy. Yet many excellent works of art proliferate, from Cubist collages to exquisite, large-scale paintings by Cy Twombly and some of Robert Rauschenberg's early combines, like Rebus, 1955; from James Rosenquist's room- size F-111, 1964-65, and a reassembly of some of the passionate, gaudy fragments from Claes Oldenburg's Store of 1961-62 to Brancusi's phallic...