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Nikita Khrushchev, no cube he, guffawed at a showing of Pablo Picasso's cubist paintings last year, but the Spanish master's politics are clearly considered more realistic. For his long devotion to Communist causes (a temporary defection over Hungary was forgiven), the Soviet Union awarded an $11,100 Lenin Peace Prize to Picasso, 80, at the very moment that nine Manhattan galleries were honoring him with "An American Tribute...
...Busch is probably the most pleasant thing in Cambridge. Working primarily within the confines of the geometric schools, Feininger nevertheless manages to display a quite extensive diversity of style. His work ranges from tight geometric abstract designs to oils in which objects, Leger-like, resemble machine parts, and loose cubist watercolors reminiscent of Mr. Feininger's father, Lyonel...
...fell under the spell of Cezanne, later said that it took him all of three years to shake it. Some of his early canvases look vaguely like the work of Braque or Gris, but Léger was never to be a cubist. What interested him was not dissection but construction; while the cubists shattered the surface of reality and the surrealists explored the world of dreams, Léger clung to the familiar objects and figures all about him, using them like brightly colored blocks to build his compositions...
...shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes that would startle...
...when the cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque began to appear in Paris, Archipenko fell under their spell. He was perhaps the first (historians disagree) to bring cubism to sculpture. Today his work of that great period (see color} seems as vital as it was when it was done in the years before the first World War. But if these show Archipenko at his most memorable, they do not fully reveal...