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...Though ostensibly located in London, visually Mattotti has moved the action to Weimar Berlin. Filled with grotesque faces and crippled veterans, Mattotti evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that...
...Edward Wood may be the Worst, but Oscar Micheaux is the Baddest - with all that that implies. ... Scenes climax in a cubist explosion of herky-jerky jump cuts wherein an actor appears in a succession of slightly askew angles. ... Actors play multiple roles, some characters seem blessed with precognition while others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze...
Designed by Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz in 1966, Hilles is a modern cubist conglomeration sitting on a raised concrete platform where blocks of concrete and glass are assembled around a four-sided open courtyard strewn with hemispherical flowerpots, benches and a reflecting pool, all made out of concrete. Walking across an open terrace, up the steps onto the platform and under a wide, low-ceiling tunnel gives way to the space which is walled in by sheets of glass and ringed by two sets of balconies at the second and fourth floors. It is an austere, angular setting...
...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
...Rall, a political cartoonist who occasionally contributes to the print arm of this Website, has a clunky, chunky drawing style which gains in uniqueness what it loses in verisimilitude. Almost cubist, the flat, black and white images include characters that always stand with their body facing you but their face in profile, except for the eyes, which sit on one side together. Mostly the images are in service to the text, which tends to bear down on them, overwhelming them. Rall likes words...