Word: henrie
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...without the security of her liberal, upper- middle-class background, the way of life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become literal in 1915: painted cardboard still-life sculptures inspired by Archipenko...
...Henri Troyat, a member of the prestigious French Academy, charged that the omission would "disfigure the soul of a word." Book editor Yves Berger bemoaned the loss "of this marvelous chapeau de gendarme ((policeman's hat))." The brouhaha grew worse over the past two weeks as more members of the academy openly broke with the majority who voted for Rocard's reform last May, and it is possible they may force another vote. The academy will discuss the issue at its Thursday meeting this week, and if it recants, the government will have to think again...
...FAUVE LANDSCAPE by Judi Freeman (Abbeville; $65). From 1904 to 1908, a group of painters changed the history of modern art. Their startling palettes and images are celebrated by an authority who agrees with one of them, a painter named Henri Matisse: "Fauve painting is not everything, but it is the foundation of everything...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art (it was at the National Gallery in Washington through the spring, and will go to Moscow and Leningrad in the fall and winter), is what used to be called a connoisseurs' show. It covers a short time in a long life. Henri Matisse visited Morocco just twice, in early 1912 and again in the winter of 1912-13. Hence the exhibition is fairly small, only 24 paintings and a large group of sketchbook drawings. It can be seen without sore feet and framed as a whole in one's mind. It is thorough...
...biggest problem in getting Concorde II off the ground will be financial. Aerospatiale President Henri Martre estimates that the program would spend $10 billion to get production rolling. But European aerospace officials with memories of the horrendous cost overruns incurred by the first Concorde program fear the figure could end up much higher, raising doubts about the plane's commercial viability. A new Concorde project might be unable to turn a profit without government subsidies, which are unlikely to be forthcoming this time around...