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...early aptitude for art. At ten he was enrolled in art school, and at 21 he won a scholarship to study in Europe, where he spent 13 years imitating the masters and searching for a style of his own. In Paris he discovered cubism and turned out many fashionably cubist paintings. He also discovered women, who were violently attracted to this massive, whimsical "Mexican cowboy" who seldom bathed. He kept two mistresses at the same time and had children by both...
...lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations of Modern...
Manhattan's revamped Jewish Museum this week opens an instructive show called "Toward a New Abstraction," with 47 works by nine of these artists. At first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children...
...impact of these imaginings was widespread. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of architects, including Oscar Niemeyer, designed the Brazilian ministry of Education and Health (1939-1943), incorporating Le Corbusier's ideas -- stilts, sun-breakers, roof-garden, cubist design of windows and balconies. Niemeyer's plans for Brasilia also show the impact of Le Corbusier...
During those five years he had done Cubist paintings (under the name Jeanneret which he still uses for his painting and sculpture), and developed his fundamental ideas. He had written Towards a New Architecture with its conclusion that "the old architectural code, with its mass of rules and regulations evolved during 4,000 years, is no longer of any interest . . . all its values have been revised...