Word: cubists
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...bastard arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin. Life today hardly allows one to be a painter. Tomorrow it will be even less so. What is painting today? An anachronism...
...mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...
...long time for such cheers. The son of a Parisian day laborer, he apprenticed himself to a stone carver at 14, attended free sculpture classes in public night school. Before World War I, he took a studio in Montmartre, began hobnobbing with Paris' artist-revolutionaries, translating their cubist experiments into blocky, three-dimensional breakdowns of guitars, women and bottles. But as Laurens' friend, Cubist André Lhôte, puts it, "The painters had the luck-the bourgeoisie liked the colors. But the poor sculptors! The women were afraid the corners would catch the plumes in their hats...
...show of modern French art, accompanied by France's Ambassador, Rene Massigli. When the royal party reached a huge abstract painting by Fernand Leger called La Noce (The Wedding), King George stopped. For a moment the King gazed at the strange melee of human figures squeezed into cubist shapes, then turned to the Ambassador. "What is it?" he asked. "The Schuman Plan...
...question of the High Authority, v. the cartels can be settled, the treaty draft will go to the Western European foreign ministers who must set up the "High Authority," and finally to the national parliaments, who will have to ratify it. The Schuman Plan remains, in spite of cubist complexities, Europe's best hope for economic unity and strength...