Word: cubists
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...study for Henri Matisse's greatest mural made headlines last week (see above), his greatest rival in the field of modern art, Pablo Picasso, was honored by three shows at once. When both of them were young rebels in Paris, it was Painter Matisse who coined the name "Cubist" for the angular painting of his rival. At the Museum of Living Art, pretentious name for the important collection of modern painting that public-spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract painting of three masked figures, two in motley...
Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks discovered the artist on the same premises. France's Duchamp, 49, was making his first visit to California to see once again the picture that established his reputation...
...Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...
...Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth and current husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting as model for her third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society, she has always had the money, friends and inclination to shift her sphere of influence where...
...dealers racked their memory, decided that it was Emanuel something, probably Raveninsky. As Man Ray he has been known since he came from Philadelphia over 20 years ago. His first exhibition of paintings was held at the Daniel Gallery in 1915. At that time he was an ardent cubist and bewildered conservative critics with his angularities. In 1921 he went to Paris, where he has remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots of bits of landscape, nudes, egg beaters and pieces of wire have caught...