Art 101: Why you can’t be an Abstract Expressionist

Professor Lise tells us all about art movements and why your uncle can’t be an abstract expressionist even if he wanted to.

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So how did Cubism get its name? Like a lot of art movements, that story begins with a crappy, resentful person. Not Picasso, but a critic. In the case of Cubism, it was a guy named Louis Vauxcelles. He went to see work by Braque and Picasso and was less than impressed at how different from all the other art it looked. So when he wrote about their paintings, he talked about the work as "cubic weirdness," describing it as "bizarreries cubique."

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