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Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy. He has never followed the fads of Parisian painting, never gone surrealist or cubist, never painted a face with one eye or three. Many of Bonnard's pictures fall into a kind of sentimental fuzziness that reminds people of Renoir...
...centuries for its carpets and tapestries. But of late no one wanted to buy tapestries; they were too expensive and their designs were too fussy. People no longer needed them to hang over doors and windows to keep out drafts, or to cheer barnlike castle halls. Now, a former cubist and surrealist painter named Jean Lurçat has given Aubusson a new lease on life...
Marchers in the preliminary parade denied any political partiality, saying merely that they were dadaists. (Dadalsm was a bohemian movement in Germany and France in the 1920s which produced cubist art and specialized in nonsense.) The dadaists were applauded after the demonstration by the HLU, which credited them with bringing out a large crowd, and by the Conservative League, which was grateful for the Boston newspapers' mistake...
...young Philadelphia-born artist named Charles Sheeler took a trip to Paris, gazed at the Cubist experiments of Picasso and Braque, and came home an abstractionist. For a living he became a photographer, but his Art, which he spelled with a capital A, was safely outside the world his camera saw. Only two things bothered him: most people preferred the photographs...
...began to be an artist in Druskiensiki, Lithuania, when he was only eight. His earliest works were carefully painted white in imitation of the plaster casts he saw at school. At 18, Lipchitz hotfooted to Paris, became the youngest member of the Cubist group, quickly developed the muscular, semi-abstract style...