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Unpretentious and lacking in musical composition really suited to the players, "It Won't Be Long Now" flowed smoothly and was consistently entertaining. The choruses danced skillfully and were well coached. Figures were cubist, to be sure, rather than curved. The audience, at all events, seemed to enjoy itself immensely...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/19/1932 | See Source »

...could find no one in New York last week to translate J. J. P. Oud's initials. Born in Holland in 1890. he became a disciple, at a distance, of Wisconsin's Frank Lloyd Wright. His own style developed slowly. In 1928 he published a number of Cubist projects for workmen's houses which won him an appointment as City Architect of Rotterdam. He is responsible for Rotterdam's Spangen and Tuschendijken municipal housing development and numerous private houses. Critics find him the most refined and conscientious of the workers in the International Style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machines to Live In | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Turning to Cezanne for strength in the analysis of volume and mass, he became one of the exponents of the cubist school. Since 1919 he has vacillated between the pictorial and the abstract, all his work being characterized by, a boundless energy and imagination. The exhibition will continue until Friday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXHIBITION OF PICASSO HELD BY ART SOCIETY | 1/22/1931 | See Source »

This year, in the exhibition which opened at the Waldorf last week, everything submitted at curtain time had been accepted. Many of the paintings would hardly, however, be seen elsewhere than at the Independent's tableau. Wandering through the labyrinth of cubist, futuristic, abstract, satirical, constructionistic, or caricaturistic themes, spectators were impressed with the thought that each of these artists had expressed himself with no fear of jury. To be seen were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Freedom, Drunkenness | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Died. Henry Simon, 52, President of the French Chamber's Finance Commission, cubist painter: in Paris, of apoplexy, shortly after leaving the Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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