Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chesterton said: " It was the whole point of Whistler and his school that they produced the picture without troubling about the meaning. We may say it is the point of Picasso and the rest to paint the meaning without troubling about the picture...
Henry Tyrrell, quoting Elie Faure, writer of the greatest history of art of recent years, says: " Picasso was undoubtedly a great criminal, in the sense that he is largely responsible for the muddle (sic) which painting has got into latterly. It is from him chiefly that the younger artists have taken the notion of looking within themselves to interpret the outer world, instead of, like their elders, looking at the outside world to realize themselves. Because oftentimes they are unable to distinguish much of anything within themselves, you know what happens (They get themselves called crazy). That is Picasso...
...first place we would remind your reviewer that there is a slight difference between impressionisum and expressionism--the hardly discernible difference, let us say, between a sunrise by Monet and a ballet set by Picasso. J.M.B. had better wake up or the day after tomorrow will be here before he knows what has happened in the field of art. Mr. Macgowan does not even mention impressionism whereas he is constantly referring to the new expressionistic movement...