Mr. Jean Paulhan has just published in the NRF on cubist painting two remarkable articles which have greatly interested me.
He insists on the character, he says,
"sacred"
of this attempt.
And it is not my fault that this word immediately awakened in me a memory of Rimbaud:
"I end up finding sacred the disorder of my mind."
The enthusiasm of the authors of the movement, which had its apostles and martyrs, is not unlike that of the Byzantine iconoclasts.
Yet these only attacked a certain category of paintings.
While the cubists abjure everything which until now has been the very object of their art, that is to say the fixity given within a frame by the composition to a subject, to a presentation, to a representation of things, characters or events.
Abjuration expressed not by a purely negative attitude and consisting in religious abstention, but positive and affirmed by the destruction of its object: thus of the zealots who do not
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