Cubism and the Early American Modernist
Abraham A. Davidson
In an article entitled “Toward a Re-interpretation of Cubism,” Winthrop Judkins singled out number formal characteristics common to the still lifes Picasso, Braque and Gris done between 1912 1916: planes which are at once transparent opaque; tones objects “bleed” become background so that object is part of, same time in front background; outlines coincide with other continuity may be read around either or across both; surfaces recede behind project over them simultaneously; shadows, mutually excluded by each other's light sources, standing side side; etc. He concluded “clearly all these things have common, they unending variety manifestations, this: A deliberate oscillation appearances, studied multiplicity readings, conscious compounding identities, iridescence form.”
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