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Curator of Paintings Henry Clifford, whose Philadelphia Museum is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, looked happy as a cat that has swallowed a cubist canary. He called the Arensbergs' gift "possibly the most intense single grouping of 20th Century art ever made...
Like most Zadkine sculptures, his new memorial for Rotterdam combined the soft, delicate architecture of flesh with slashed and squared-off chunks derived, at least in part, from cubist painting. The figure billowed like smoke from blocky underpinnings. The arms, as if elongated by its terror, writhed upwards to hold back the sky in a futile, contorted gesture of self-preservation. The statue looked like a cross between Atlas and a frightened child, which was perhaps just what its subject required...
...clever one. He knew about ideas and he knew about pictures, and he told Gertrude. Then, to Leo's astonishment, Gertrude began to turn into a genius. People began to take her inspired gobbledygook seriously, and she began to buy Picasso's new cubist paintings against her brother's advice...
Georges Braque, 68, collects and polishes old bones to embody in the ceramics he is making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into...
Composed of interlocking planes of soft, clear color, Afro's abstractions look rather like shattered Venetian glass seen through a watery film. His colors are very much his own, but his compositions are not; when reproduced in black & white they appear to rest solidly on the cubist experiments of Braque and Picasso. Afro's close harmonies of color and texture also reflect his long apprenticeship as a decorative artist. His delicate yet decisive lines and contrapuntal arrangement of shapes show a draftsmanship that comes only from long study...