Henri Laurens.KUNSTHALLE With the right birthdate (1885) and connections (Kahnweiler, Braque, Picasso, Diaghilev, Chanel), Laurens Laurens (lô`rənz), city (1990 pop. 9,694), seat of Laurens co., NW S.C.; inc. 1875. Ceramics, motor vehicle parts, glass and fiberglass products, and textiles are made; livestock is raised. claims a niche in every account of Cubism cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubist TheoryCubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. Among the specific elements abandoned by the cubists were the sensual appeal of paint texture and color, subject matter with emotional charge or mood, the play of light on form, movement, atmosphere, and the illusionism that proceeded from scientifically based perspective.. But his early works have seldom made anyone's pulse beat faster; and his later anguished females tend to seem well-mannered See well-behaved. next to Moore's and Lipchitz's heroic earth mothers. With this retrospective, curated by Thomas Kallein, things may change, especially with Louise Bourgeois's promised essay, which will explore the personal mysteries in what now look only like "modernist" period pieces. (An amputee am·pu·tee (  m py -t , Laurens was particularly dependent on his adoring wife, Marthe.) Perhaps this new reading of the artist's psychodrama 1. A psychotherapeutic and analytic technique in which people are assigned roles to be played spontaneously within a dramatic context devised by a therapist. 2. A dramatization in which this technique is employed. psy cho·dra·mat will stir things up. Mar. 4- May 27.
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