The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 16
... Cubist painting is a still - life , and one in which manmade objects predominate over natural ones like flowers or fruit . Cubism as practised by its inventors and chief interpreters - Picasso , Braque , Léger , and Gris - does not woo ...
... Cubist painting is a still - life , and one in which manmade objects predominate over natural ones like flowers or fruit . Cubism as practised by its inventors and chief interpreters - Picasso , Braque , Léger , and Gris - does not woo ...
Page 146
... Cubism . " There is in Nature , " he remarked , " a tactile , I almost mean ' manual , ' space . " This he explored in his still - lives of the twenties and thirties . It trained his style away from synthetic Cubist uncertainty ...
... Cubism . " There is in Nature , " he remarked , " a tactile , I almost mean ' manual , ' space . " This he explored in his still - lives of the twenties and thirties . It trained his style away from synthetic Cubist uncertainty ...
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... Cubism - accepted as truth the woolliest nonsense that Theosophy could offer . Precisely because he adhered to this ... Cubism . Given the link through Cubism , Mondrian's progression from nature to abstraction was utterly convincing ...
... Cubism - accepted as truth the woolliest nonsense that Theosophy could offer . Precisely because he adhered to this ... Cubism . Given the link through Cubism , Mondrian's progression from nature to abstraction was utterly convincing ...
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