the great attraction of the
beginning
when
Armory Show; something had
weary
Brancusi,
of
its
"making corpses,"
conceived the Sleeping Muse, which was gradually
to
become transformed into a simple ovoid; something had beginning when there was nothing. was then that Kandinsky, in Munich, uttered the wellknown words: "Everything is permitted" (alles ist erlaubt). its It
In
1961,
we
by
live
still
heritage, which
this
truth
in
is
inexhaustible.
The year 1912
will
art of this century.
was
learning from
days of 191
1.
always remain the turning point
Cubism was it
in Paris,
at
its
where he had come
He soon went beyond
works, although
still
it
in
the last
and through
his first
Cubist, arrived at his Neo-Plastic
and the
of the right angle. In February, Severini
exhibited at Bernheim's.
among
ents,
could AAarcel
be
Delaunay's
to
time. In
law
Futurists
at the Salon des Independ-
In April,
new magnitudes
painting,
of
there
Simultaneous Windows and
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.
beginning first
other
seen
for the
apogee, and Mondrian
be recognized, exhibited
in
Gris, just
the Salon for the
March, Gleizes and Metzinger published Du
Cubisme. October saw the
first
show
of the Sect/on d'Or
("The Golden Section") at the Galerie de
la
Boetie, with
more than two hundred works, among which were
Picabia's
Les danseuses a la source (The Dancers at the Fountain)
and a
series of wholly abstract
with the paintings of nearly of course, the three
all
Duchamp
works by Kupka together
the other Cubists including,
brothers
who
initiated this
enormous undertaking. At the Salon d'Automne, Kupka exhibited his Fugue a
deux couleurs (Fugue
in
and Chromatique chaude (Warm Chromatic
Two
Colors)
Scale),
and
also Duchamp-Villon's frontal plan for the "Cubist house." 12