A brush with Picasso May 24, 2008
Saunier says a few years later Picasso moved away from Cubism. "The Cubists began to get academic. Everybody was Cubist. It was the new modern language, so he wanted to react again. That is why he came back to figurative representation of the female body, in a more classical style.". (Courier Mail)
Inspiration arrives early for artist May 21, 2008
"The Art of Cubism" is by Luciano Gabriel Quijano ... His "The Art of Cubism," for example, is a self-portrait that vibrates. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
A Suvey of the Fourth Dimension May 20, 2008
This is exactly what Robbin attempts to do (with surprising success) in his book, Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought (Yale University Press, 2006) ... In art, the reader will be thoroughly surprised by the very real, very fascinating connection between the works of Pablo Picasso - the founder of Cubism - and formal four-dimensional mathematics. (Suite101.com)
Monet to Picasso From the Cleveland Museum of Art June 23 - September 21, 2008 May 17, 2008
More than seventy paintings and sculptures by luminaries of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, and Surrealism are gathered together in this singular exhibition. Most notably, the exhibition includes key works by Courbet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Picasso, Dal, and others. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Extrovert of expressionism' dies May 15, 2008
Not since Picasso and Braque had jointly invented cubism a half century earlier had two artists worked together as closely, or momentously. The two men shared a studio, became lovers and supported themselves by doing window displays for Bonwit Teller and Tiffany & Co.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82 May 14, 2008
Not since Picasso and Braque had jointly invented Cubism a half century earlier had two artists worked together as closely, or momentously. The two men shared a studio, became lovers, and supported themselves by doing window displays for Bonwit Teller and Tiffany & Co. under the nom de fenetre Matson Jones. (Boston Globe)
Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales May 8, 2008
A small watercolor by Paul Klee, which draws on the twin heritage of Cubism and Surrealism, then made $1 ... The beautiful imaginary urban view, "Umpferstedt," in the faceted style devised by Lyonel Feininger in the wake of French Cubism, that followed seemed more reasonable at $1 ... ger's own dating, is in a very idiosyncratic style that owes much to Cubism while already heralding the later "p?riode m?canique." The large canvas hoisted itself to $39. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Extraordinary gifts for the Indonesian public May 4, 2008
There are also works by the supreme colorist Sonia Delaunay, who had a far-reaching impact on the worlds of art, design and fashion and is credited with taking Cubism off the stage and into the streets. She entered the domain of couture, drawing the prints of Coco Chanel. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008
He kept his distance from the new art movements, even those originating in the French capital, such as Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism ... "There were points of contact [in his work] with many of his artist colleagues, even those in Paris. Soutine was not so different from Chagall, Modigliani or Maurice Utrillo."The exhibition also highlights parallels with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso," she added. Buzzing Paris The artist was born to a poor family in what is now Belarus and came to Paris in... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Neil Gaiman Celebrates Dismissed Charges Against A Comic Book Store Owner, At New York Comic-Con Apr 22, 2008
" However, the state of Georgia did not agree at first, and when police got word that both a 9-year-old and his 6-year-old brother had seen an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi's graphic novel "The Salon" (which depicts the rise of cubism and depicts the first meeting between George Braque and Pablo Picasso), they charged Lee with two felony counts and five misdemeanor counts which could have added up to three years in jail. Thanks to the CBLDF and a lot of legal maneuvering, the felony charges were... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Leger's `Etude pour La Femme en Bleu' May Bring $45 Million at Sotheby's Apr 11, 2008
The Sotheby's painting represents a reworking of the 1912 etude in Biot and marks Leger's departure from figuration toward cubism and abstraction. Splendid Work. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
RHS senior receives grant to art institute Apr 8, 2008
Her work appears to be a mixture of styles, abstract, cubism, and pop art. Jones pieces sometimes require a second look, for details one might have missed on first glance. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
American Artist Charles Demuth Apr 1, 2008
Demuth also absorbed the variety of aesthetic movements going on in Paris at the time, and elements of Fauvism and Cubism would find their way into his work as he developed his own distinctive style. Demuth s 1912 exhibit of watercolors at The Pennsylvania Academy of Arts drew considerable praise. (Suite101.com)
Burst of color in new art exhibit Mar 15, 2008
And it's bursting with color from Ginny Blakeslee Breen's big bold florals to Deanna Schrell, whose floral arrangement sports a hint of cubism. Leslie Anderson looks ahead to summer picnics with a nicely composed colorful piece titled Life Should be a Party that even features ants running amok. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Mortality and the art of epic biography Mar 15, 2008
The first volume covered his early life and emergence as an artist through his rose and blue periods; the second, dating from Les demoiselles d'Avignon and his creation of cubism with Georges Braque. Triumphs like Guernica and much of the sculpture for which he's known, his unmatched late-life productivity, as well as his relationships with Dora Maar, Jacqueline Rocque and Fran. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Farewell fountain, hello sculpture Feb 26, 2008
Albert Elsen, the Walter A. Haas professor of Art History at Stanford, in a 1990 essay described "Beasley's personal cubism." Elsen said Beasley's works "are about the beauty of formal structures invented by the artist and inspired by nature. "From the considerable culture he brings to art, Beasley has drawn his inspiration from natural structures, rather than the built environment," Elsen said. Elsen's full essay and examples of Beasley's work can be viewed at . Comments Wow, $185,000 for... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Modern design through the view finders Feb 24, 2008
There are, of course, other possible sources besides Cubism. Wendorf mentions David Hockney and his collages of Polaroid images. (Boston Globe)
Vero museum puts on brave face Feb 18, 2008
That show was an international exhibition of modern art and introduced America to major movements, including impressionism, fauvism, symbolism and cubism. This fundamental shift in the essence of portraiture continues in early 20th-century works on display in the show, such as Luigi Lucioni's nearly photorealistic "Rose Hobart" (1934 oil on canvas) and Leon Kroll's sensuous nude "Hilda" (1947 oil on canvas), which reveals both the cubism and art-deco movements. (Florida Today)
From Cubism to fascism Feb 4, 2008
Antliff will present "Machine Age Fascism: Philippe Lamour and the New Vision Photography of Germaine Krull" today at 8 p.m. Leighten will speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday on "A 'Rationale of Ugliness': Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience, 1907-1913." ... Leighten described many ways we can see Cubism in Western society - architecture, interior design, clothing, and automobiles ... "Cubism was the most radical and important art movement of the early 20th century," Leighten said, pointing to such artists... (Daily Iowan, IA)
Art review: Enter the wasteland Feb 1, 2008
The effect in Busted Buck and other works is a kind of junk-heap cubism. It's hard to say this medium could serve her well for years to come, but it works well in this body of work. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A world at war, artists at work Jan 30, 2008
It was a time when social and economic turmoil brushed up against unprecedented technological advancement, and the exhibit, including lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and color linocuts, illustrates the effects of those changes, as well as the influence of Italian Futurism and French Cubism on the way British artists depicted the world around them. Today 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (Through June 1). (Boston Globe)
Great art must be freed from vaults Jan 25, 2008
Painters of whom few will have heard seem derivative, mimicking expressionism, cubism, fauvism, even surrealism. Yet gradually they emerge into the light with a voice of their own. (Guardian Unlimited)
Feature story: Visual jazz Jan 18, 2008
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Slusky counts Cubism and Surrealism among his influences. "That's kind of the rock 'n' roll. That's the dance I'm wiggling to," he said. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
And speaking of Cubism, Georges Braque's gorgeous little 1912 still life, rendered on an oval canvas that recalls both a cafe tabletop and a mirror, is a marvelous complement to LACMA's 1913 Cubist Braque oval still life. The latter is larger and more imposing, but a bit dull, while the new addition sparkles. (Los Angeles Times)
Newsweek: Was Proust a neuroscientist? Jan 9, 2008
Nobel Prize-winning physicist] Neils Bohr, for example, was a big fan of Cubism and seems to have been influenced by Cubist paintings when he was revamping the classical model of the electron. I think the frontier of the future will consist of artists and scientists working together. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Tarble Arts Center exhibits abstracts from its collection Dec 29, 2007
The art presents elements of cubism, surrealism, expressionism, abstract expressionism and other forms of abstraction. Making up the exhibition are works by the nationally recognized artists Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), Lawrence Calcagno (1913-1993), Lee R. Chesney, Jr. (b. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Diego Rivera steps back out from Kahlo's shadow Dec 27, 2007
He lived overseas, mostly in Paris, from 1907 to 1921, where he experimented with Cubism. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
16: Pablo Picasso, Damoiselles d'Avignon as the source of Cubism and the sense that the picture is a canvas and not a window. It was the single most revolutionary painting of the 20th century, although in retrospect, not Picasso's best. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Rufino Tamayo Nov 24, 2007
Tamayo s fondness for European styles blending Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism and even the Futurists along with native Mexican influences also did not put him in high regard with The Three. Tamayo generally tried to dismiss his detractors, claiming I am neither the fourth, nor am I great. (Suite101.com)
Breaking the Rules Nov 20, 2007
Cubism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Futurism at the British Library ... The term 'avant garde' includes a number of artistic styles, each regarded as a movement in its own right such as Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Surrealism. (Suite101.com)
Art class offers inmates new skills, perspective Nov 11, 2007
The course covers Impressionism, cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, performance art, conceptual art, and contemporary artists. Other inmates sometimes taunt the artists, but many are intrigued, said Michael Duff, an inmate in the class who is serving time for assault. (Boston Globe)
Pablo Picasso Nov 10, 2007
Many of us can remember a time when Cubism, viewed as a dazzlingly optimistic investigation of the essential nature of reality, was said to be the pinnacle, the gravitational center of Picasso's art ... We can no longer see modernity as anything but darkly, dangerously heterogeneous, and so we are inclined to seek the key to Picasso's quintessentially modern art not in the scrupulously crafted perspectives of Cubism but in the sometimes almost bewildering pluralism of his huge production in the... (International Herald Tribune)
Were Spain's two artistic legends secret gay lovers? Oct 28, 2007
It was there, as a bizarre exhibitionist diving into Cubism, that he became close to Bunuel and Lorca, who he later described as 'the poetic phenomenon incarnate' and the only person who ever made him jealous. Lorca would go on to write plays including Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba before being murdered, aged 38, by Nationalists during the Spanish civil war. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
An opera inspired by Federico Garca Lorca gets a fresh life onstage Oct 19, 2007
Sellars labels his vibrant, dramatic sets a reinterpretation of cubism that mix beauty and violence in equal measure. All over Andalusia, to this day, there are unmarked mass graves, he says. (Boston Globe)
Alzheimer's program is one from the art Oct 17, 2007
"Mother said it was an example of cubism. Everyone in the group was stunned.". Alzheimer's affects recent memory first. (USA Today)
Expo in Ahmadinejad's Iran showcases avant-garde art Oct 15, 2007
"We do not reject the Western culture and art but we want to say that Eastern culture has something to say. Cultures leave impressions on one another. Iranian artists have influenced cubism, symbolism and fauvism," he added. "We wanted to show the level of influence of our art on the other arts, all arts have their own effects," he added. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Ruth Davidson Hahn & Company Highlights Lincoln's Symphony "Dance of Emotions" Oct 14, 2007
She used elements of Halls painting as well as the soldiers violin, symbolic of his soul and the devils bargain, to create each unique costume, with a nod and a wink to cubism. Holmquist, at thirteen, is a prodigy to watch. (Nebraska Statepaper)
The Composer in His Own Words Oct 4, 2007
But Adams began to feel that the minimalism "was like cubism, limited in its potential. My needs are enormous. I need expressiveness, shock, surprise, high energy," he says. By the early 1980s, his music was delivering plenty of expressive surprises, combining what Ross describes as a combination of "Reich-Glass repetition with the sprawling forms and grandiose orchestra of Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius.". (SunSpot.net)
The Unbound West Sep 12, 2007
Compare this static quality to the progression in Western painting from Neoclassicism through Impressionism, Cubism, Modigliani, Hopper, what have you. All good, but stylistically from different planets. (The American Conservative)
Such tolerance of anti-Semitism raises a modern Jewish question Sep 8, 2007
"Cubism, purism, constructivism, neoplasticism, vorticism, expressionism and surrealism - to name but the leading creeds how proverbially shrewd was the confraternity of Jewish dealers, who added the pleasure of 'taking down the Goysher' for immensely overpriced works of ultimate questionable value to forcing the painters of their race on the credulous Christian.". We tend to remember only those ideas from the past we find inspiring, or which seem to have contributed to the way we think today. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Let's Face It! is a creative outlet Sep 7, 2007
Next, they looked at Pablo Picasso s cubism and created their own that mirrored those techniques. And then stepping away from the portrait theme for the week, they went on to look at sculptures of the human form and Claude Monet s Japanese Bridge. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Revisiting a fabled couple's passions and paintings Aug 31, 2007
In a smooth mix of Cubism and Art Deco style, it depicts a giant wasp crouching in a predatory manner over a bulbous green pear. When I first came upon the painting back in the 1970s, I took it for the work of a contemporary artist straddling the line between Surrealism and Pop Art. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Only connect Aug 21, 2007
It is densely, dimly packed: terrorism, intelligence, Starbucks, Cubism, Deco, laxatives, drugs, Iraq, poison, technology, industry - they jostle grimly, like oily wasps, among the restricting strands. Hollis is working for a mysterious, possibly non-existent, European magazine called Node, brainchild of mysterious Belgian marketing visionary Hubertus Bigend (readers may know him from Gibson's last novel, Pattern Recognition). (Guardian Unlimited)
Painter's multiple styles kept him from becoming a singular sensation Aug 19, 2007
His most ambitious works, complicated blends of realism, surrealism, and Cubism, defy speedy reading and easy recall. Making sense of them is like trying to sort out the accumulated junk in your great-grandmother's dimly lit attic. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Russia's flirtation with internationalism Aug 11, 2007
Italian Futurism was an art with a swirling movement that gave whatever it borrowed from French Cubism an irresistible dynamic thrust ... Cubism was their true source of inspiration. (International Herald Tribune)
Hungarian art is a highlight at Maltz Museum Aug 10, 2007
Spanning 100 years of turbulent history from monarchy and socialism to communism and democracy, the plethora of styles, from Cubism and Impressionism to Neo Classicism and Surrealism mirror a country in search of both its political and artistic identity. Abstract Composition, Lajos Vajda, 1928, charcoal on paper. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Dr. Seuss the Who’ in Plano Aug 10, 2007
His documentaries of World War II and Cubism and many parts of his life and career we don t know about are revealed in the secret art, Dreyer said. These images are something we may not expect out of the good doctor. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
To explore India's contemporary art, 'Gateway Bombay' is a start Aug 3, 2007
1925) -- a flattened, iconic female figure in high-keyed colors divided by a blue diagonal -- reveal the impact of Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. M. F. Husain (b. (Boston Globe)
* Cooling off at MoMA on a summer's day Aug 2, 2007
Upstairs you'll encounter a fleet, blocky watercolor of a mill that Picasso knocked out in the Spanish town of Horta de Ebro in 1909, when he vacationed there and started getting Cubism off the ground. Nearby you'll see Georges Braque's tawny, deciduous Road Near L'Estaque, a late-summer scene of hills, dense trees and a distant view of the sea. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present Jul 26, 2007
They established a dialogue with other realities, other artistic research, as well as an awareness of the complexity of every artistic endeavour and the need to paint in a new, individual, way, differing from analytical or synthetic Cubism, and also from the Realist movement as such. Sughi is constantly aware of the philosophies of existence and therefore also of the great intellectual crisis in Western society. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Capturing spontaneity as composed chaos Jul 22, 2007
Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Constructivism, on down to Pop Art, minimalism and conceptual art -- all purported to originate or restart some project of formal, political or aesthetic progress. To this day, the search for something novel in individual temperament, or in the solidarity of an artistic cohort, has not abated, although nowadays the art market seeks it even more aggressively than do young artists themselves. (San Francisco Chronicle)
LIfestyles: SALON TREATMENT Jul 20, 2007
For frequent patrons of Downriver art, there is a combination of distinctive, familiar styles that greet the eye like old friends, such as the colorful cubism of Joe Scott, or the dramatic sculptures of Marion Melody andMarilyn Bomarito. In other cases, the names are familiar, but the works submitted for this show offer a different side of the artist, no more so than with Mono D'Angelo. (The News-Herald)
Hilo museum scores with Picasso piece Jun 24, 2007
6 inches, was created by the master of cubism in 1954. Hilo museum scores artistic coup with Picasso piece. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
An irreverent walk through 'Yosemite' Jun 24, 2007
Hockney's interest in Cubism led him to the technique of composing a prismatic view from multiple shots. Imitators have since reduced the technique to cliche. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pen and oink - art stars hog the limelight Jun 20, 2007
Pennywell's owner, Chris Murray, told one British newspaper: "The pigs tended to go more for pointillism - they weren't too keen on cubism. We think of them as our little Pigassos.". It can only be a matter of time before the porkers are joined by the likes of Salvador Ducky and Vincent Van Cow. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Christie's sets record with £121 million sale Jun 20, 2007
The Russian painter Natalia Goncharova, admired for her avant-garde uvre on the eve of World War I, went through an earlier phase in which strands of various influences ranging from French Cubism to Germanic Expressionism resulted in a figural style that can border on wooden clumsiness. "Picking Apples," said by Christie's to have been acquired from the artist by the family of the present owners in 1962, the year of her death, falls in that category. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The art history class you wish you had Jun 18, 2007
"Bye-bye resemblance" is how he introduces Cubism. "Guernica" is "Cubism with a conscience." Caravaggio is "a homicide waiting to happen" and Bernini "Mr. Fabulous.". (Boston Globe)
Sneak Peek At Walker's Pablo Picasso Exhibit Jun 14, 2007
Looking at Picasso's works, people can see a big range of art, not just the cubism for which he's famous ... Looking at Picasso's works, people can see a big range of art, not just the cubism for which he's famous. (WCCO.com, MN)
'Societe Anonyme' exhibit features modern artists Jun 14, 2007
Fisher said that an artist in the exhibition who did not have lasting fame who stands out to her is Marthe Donas, a Belgian who moved to Paris in the mid-1910s and adopted the style of the art movement of cubism. "Her work is a really interesting take on Paris cubism _ wonderfully unique," Fisher said. (Newsday -- State)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
They include La Vie, one of the major works from Picasso's Blue Period painted after the suicide of a close friend, and Bottle, Glass, Fork, a classic example of analytic cubism where objects have been so broken down into geometric shapes that they're almost completely abstract. Font. (Vancouver Sun)
Friends of Scott Fitzgerald and Picasso, Gerald and Sara Murphy were muses of Modernism Jun 9, 2007
Like their friends Picasso, Stravinsky, Serge Diaghilev and others, the Murphys - both products of wealthy New York families - were radicals in their time, possessing a rare ability to understand and encourage progressive art forms like Cubism and the groundbreaking work of the Ballets Russes, for whom they restored stage sets. After moving to France in 1921 with their three young children, Sara, then in her late 30s, and Gerald, five years younger, embarked on an unconventional lifestyle that... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Venice Biennale: Surprise breaks out of the box (or cube) Jun 7, 2007
The paintings, roughly 6 feet by 12 feet and meant to be seen in sequence, survey the fluctuating topography and history of abstraction over the last 100 years, since Picasso and Braque broke space into faceted planes with their development of Analytic Cubism ... Each titled "Desenlace," meaning disentangling, the works seem to depict a disentangling of Cubism and different conceptualizations of space. (International Herald Tribune)
Rather strange developments Jun 7, 2007
The pieces represent avant-garde art movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (or Neo-Plasticism), Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism and other abstract styles. "Why did these people start to experiment with representing reality in a radically different way?" van de Guchte said. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
"Rather Strange Developments" at the Cummer May 19, 2007
Paintings, sculptures, pastels and collages by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee exemplify the avant-garde artistic movements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (also known as Neo-Plasticism), Dada and Surrealism as well as other abstract and non-objective styles. Members, Free. (Florida Times-Union)
Plus: Choosing Who Hypes Hyundai May 12, 2007
One TV ad showing a woman walking in slow motion through an art gallery carries the following voiceover: "There's a lot of great stuff in the world that you miss when you're in a hurry. In your mad dash to get to the Mona Lisa, you miss cubism, impressionism, and the whole French Renaissance. So, what we are really saying is slow down. It's not something you usually hear from a car company. We're not telling you to go out and buy one of our cars. We're just going to tell you how we're safer and... (BusinessWeek)
