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...much better-known colleague, the painter Jacques Villon, lived next door...
Like Marcel Duchamp, Villon and the futurists, Kupka seized the threat by the horns, using photographs to revise his practice as a painter. In a figure painting entitled Planes by Colors, Large Nude, 1909-10, Kupka had taken the un inhibited color of Fauvism and given it a dense, architectural solidity (it seems right that the model's pose, monumental as it is, should mimic that of Michel angelo's Leda). The problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential...
...Exhibit. The U.S. tour begins with a bow to the Bicentennial: the imperial party will go straight to the restored colonial town of Williamsburg, Va. Then they fly to Washington for full-dress reception and state dinner in the White House. Empress Nagako, an accomplished amateur painter, will view a specially mounted exhibit of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution's Frer Gallery (TIME, Sept...
...fled to the U.S. rather than serve a French government that favored appeasement of Germany, and thereafter devoted himself to poetry. Though his output totaled a mere nine volumes, the influence of St.-John Perse was wide. His rich symbolism inspired works by such artists as Composer Elliott Carter, Painter Georges Braque and Poet T.S. Eliot, who compared Perse in importance to James Joyce...
Degas as a painter is usually lumped into the Impressionist category, but, unlike the others of that crowd, he relied a great deal on the use of line in his works. Some of his early portraits fall into a category somewhere between drawings and paintings, and it was by producing a series of monotypes that he finally resolved the conflict between lines and areas of color in his work. Monotypes are made somewhat like lithographs, but only one image is produced, and, in Degas's work, it was then colored in with pastels. Lenore Hill has made studies of Degas...