Word: lhote
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...London's Royal Academy of Arts, which is showing more than 50 of her paintings in the first major exhibition of her work in Britain. De Lempicka and her husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist André Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused...
...Lempicka and her husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist Andr? Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused the severe with the alluring: her young women may have geometrically simplified arms, perfect cones for breasts and hair that seems sculpted from sheets of steel...
...Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, and later studied with Cubist painter André Lhote, honing his geometrically precise eye for composition at the Louvre. By the 1920s, he was hanging out in Montmartre cafés with André Breton and the Surrealists. Breton, he says, "intimidated me. I was very much younger, and he was the Pope." But he was fascinated by Surrealist theories...