Word: legere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show, which includes over 100 pieces, catalogs every step of Davis's career. Davis started out painting realism and moved quickly out of that stage under the influence of European post-Impressionists and cubists. Indeed the first two rooms of paintings strongly echo Picasso, Gris and Leger. Davis, as the chronology points out, was heavily involved in artists organizations, especially during the Depression, and campaigned for recognition of the political and social importance of art and artists. After the Depression, Davis developed some of his most important theories and settled into a style using brilliant colors, well-defined shapes...
Steinberg can fill a sheet with figures, each of them drawn in a different style?cubist, pointillist, child art, hatched shading, mock sculptural, hairy scribble, Leger boilerplate, art deco?and display a wide, ironic complicity with art history while making no final commitment to a "way" of drawing. The drawing works because he so obviously possesses each style. It is imitation without flattery. As a dandy, Steinberg owns all the hats in his wardrobe. A still life like Belgian Air Mail 1971, is not a "cubist-type" drawing, a thing done in homage to Braque and Picasso. It is rather...
...what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...
...Canada on the brink of civil war? To say so would be an exaggeration, although hostilities have already developed between the federal and provincial levels. Jacques Y. Morin, Quebec Education Minister and Marcel Leger, Quebec Environment Minister, recently startled international conferences by stating that they spoke for Quebec, not Canada. Trudeau responded with a threat to ban Quebec representatives from future international conferences if such situations recurred...
Gradually, suspicions began to hatch. More than four years ago, Leger Galleries had a visit from a leading Palmer specialist, Sir Karl Parker, who pronounced Sepham Barn a fake. When The Horse Chestnut Tree appeared in Sotheby's, one of its former consultants, David Gould, wrote to Chairman Peter Wilson expressing doubts about it. But the scandal was finally exposed when Geraldine Norman, the London Times's auction-room correspondent, tracked Keating to his lonely cottage in Dedham. "I have so much contempt for the dealers who prostitute the art of genuine painters," Keating announced, "that...