Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would wind up on the floor. Last week Chicago's Art Institute was offering a look at that brightly decked future: 13 limited-edition (ten copies of each) rugs designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joán Miró, Jean Lurçat, the late Fernand Léger and U.S. Mobile Sculptor Alexander Calder...
...America than Jacques Barzun, and he got to his present position by his own intellectual route. The son of the literary scholar, Henri Martin Barzun, he spent his boyhood among some of the foremost artists around Paris. Novelists Jules Romains and Georges Duhamel were constant visitors, so were Artists Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp. "It was," says Barzun, "a seedbed of modernism. Apollinaire dandled me on his knee. Marie Laurencin did a sketch...
Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New York. All brought essentially the same promise: instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored...
Last week, no longer a warden, Fernand Billa went on trial for "criminal negligence." One of the beneficiaries of his kindness, himself on trial for forging his own passes out of the prison, did his best to help. "Sometimes I gave him a swig of red Bordeaux or a chicken wing," testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this...
This year one glance was enough to tip off the jurors to what was in store. Of 35 oils hanging in the central gallery, only three (including one by the late Fernand Léger) were remotely representational. The steadily mounting flood of abstract painting, instead of subsiding, has now surged across all national boundary lines and established itself as the international style of the mid-20th century. After spending the past year combing dealers' galleries, museums and artists' studios across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, Carnegie Institute Art Director Gordon Bailey Washburn, charged with hand-picking...