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Amid suits of armour, medieval altarpieces and tapestries, 50 cubist and surrealist works of Paul Klee went on exhibition in the Germanic Museum yesterday. The collection received a varied reception...
Juan Gris was an artist who earned respect, if not popularity. His severely cubist paintings, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, were mostly classics of their kind. Gris's favorite props-wine bottles, clay pipes, books, newspapers and guitars-were crowded into compositions as slick and tight as nylon stockings. They were neither completely representational nor completely abstract, for Gris believed the two elements were like the warp and woof in weaving, inseparable...
Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think...
...picture that was one of the hits of the exhibition. Entitled The Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with its last fruits in her lap. Ex-Cubist François Desnoyer was represented by a solidly constructed harbor picture in colors as bright and brassy as boat whistles...
...calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...