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Renaissance artists prided themselves on their mastery of perspective, which could make a flat-surfaced painting seem to recede into infinity; cubist painters warped the lines of sight to show several sides of the same object on a flat canvas. Today, younger artists are finding that they need even more room to explore their illusive imagery. The results are constructions (see color) that fall somewhere between two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional sculpture. The artists might best be described as working in 21 dimensions...
...American daily life, but the dark, flamboyant style that Henri encouraged among Hopper's fellow students, most notably George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, was not for Hopper. Instead, he went on to Paris, absorbed the lighter palette of the impressionists-and remained totally aloof from the Fauvist and cubist revolutions going on around...
What is remarkable about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
...problem of writing operas of their own: in one, a hillbilly, over his mother's strong objections, goes to New York to pursue a career as a folk singer and becomes famous. Art students take a Vermeer masterpiece and, on a transparent overlay, convert his realism into a cubist painting, while trying to preserve the structure of the original...
...Jean Leymarie, Geneva University art professor and longtime Picasso friend, who undertook the task of amassing the works, insisted that the exhibition include Picasso's full range, from a finished academic portrait done when Pablo was 14 to landscapes as recent as last year. The Soviets lent nine cubist paintings, making it the first time-and probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon...