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...cavalry doctor with the 11th Cuirassiers during World War I, Raymond Duchamp-Villon knew equine anatomy well. As a sculptor, and one of the triumvirate of brothers that included Painter Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, a founder of Dada, he was familiar with the idea that the horse gave aristocratic stature to its rider and had long been the very symbol of man in power. With the beginning of World War I, Duchamp-Villon foresaw that the power of the horse would metamorphose into machine power. The result was his Large Horse...
Commuting back and forth between his army camp and his studio in a Paris suburb, Duchamp-Villon modeled his first equestrian studies with horse and rider. Then as he continued working, he merged the two, smoothed down the surfaces to the metallic glisten of machinery. Only the vaguest form of a hoof in the cubistic sculpture resembles a steed thundering down the stretch. Fetlocks and hindquarters dissolved into the hard shape of cams, pistons and gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such...
...occasional cloud, it is the thought of how swiftly time has flown since he first arrived, a bedazzled Russian Jew, to greet Paris a full half-century ago. Of the pre-World War I luminaries that were then his contemporaries-the Frenchmen Braque, Matisse, Léger, Rouault, Delaunay, Villon, the Spaniard Juan Gris, the Rumanian Sculptor Brancusi, the Italian Modigliani, the Russians Kandinsky and Soutine-only Picasso, now 83, remains of those who gave the School of Paris its start. Of the two principal survivors, Picasso is the most protean and cerebral, Chagall the most constant champion...
String & Scribbles. Duchamp's Solomon Grundy career became legend, all the more quixotic because his two brothers, Painter Jacques Villon and Sculptor Duchamp-Villon, went on to make careers in art that placed them near the top of their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...
...poster art would not have made art history if it had not been for a rebellious group of impressionist painters who wanted to get more light and air into their work and to reach a larger public. With painters such as Manet, Bonnard, Villon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain doing the ad-cum-art work, the posters rapidly became collectors' items and more valuable than the products advertised...