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...Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes as if it had been hacked away with an ax. Two figures on the right presented faces as grotesque as African masks. It was the first cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d' Avignon. Almost half a century later, cubism, although short-lived, ranks as one of the most influential movements in art history. To salute its achievements, the Venice Biennale this summer is exhibiting 29 paintings by the purest cubist of them all, Picasso's friend...
Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
...Painting Prize ($2,400): to France's Jacques Villon, 80 (TIME, June 6, 1955), who showed 38 paintings. Early Cubist Villon (who changed his name from Duchamp to hide his early art activity from his stern Normandy father) is a member of a long-famous painting family, which includes his brothers, Cubist Sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. For years Jacques Villon was out of the limelight, working as a newspaper cartoonist and engraver. He began achieving belated recognition when he won first prize in the 1950 Carnegie International...
...first signs of a thaw in Russia's artistic climate even brought one timid debut out into the open. An unpublicized show by younger artists in a small Moscow gallery included canvases copying the strong, clear colors of Matisse and even imitations of Braque's cubist period. Clear inspiration for the new art effort was an exhibition-one of the most exciting seen in Moscow in decades-of French painting up to 1917, the year before the Soviets confiscated major private collections. Art students queued for hours in the subfreezing weather before Moscow's Pushkin Museum, came...
...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...