The New Yorker on Cubism:
"The style wasn’t new, exactly— or even really a style,
in its purest instances— though it would spawn no end
of novelties in art and design. Rather, it stripped naked
certain characteristics of all pictures. Looking at a Cubist
work, you are forced to see how you see. This may be
gruelling, a gymnasium workout for eye and mind.
It pays off in sophistication."
— Online "Culture Desk" weblog, posted today by Peter Schjeldahl
Non-style from 1911:
See also Cube Symmetry Planes in this journal.
A comment at The New Yorker related to Schjeldahl's phrase "stripped naked"—
"Conceptualism is the least seductive modern-art movement."
POSTED 4/11/2013, 3:54:37 PM BY CHRISKELLEY
(The "conceptualism" link was added to the quoted comment.)