Word: pardes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fauves, noted that Braque. "a very bold young man." seemed to reduce everything to "cubes." Soon, the word cubism was a part of art's vocabulary. Picasso had also begun experimenting with geometric planes, and when he and Braque met. they formed a partnership. Picasso called his friend "Pard." an expression gleaned from the silent western films then popular in France, and the two men painted so much alike that even they sometimes had difficulty telling who had painted what. The partnership gradually dissolved, but not until it had changed the course of modern...