Louis Vauxcelles
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Louis Vauxcelles was a French art critic. He is credited with coining the terms Fauvism and Cubism. He used several pseudonyms in various publications: Pinturrichio, Vasari, Coriolès, and Critias.
Louis Vauxcelles, 1909 (Jules Chéret)
Matisse Woman with a Hat
Tubism
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Tubisme is a term from the art world that carries two distinct meanings. On the one hand, it refers to a variant within cubism identified by art critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1911, in which artists such
Louis Vauxcelles
…stressed the statement made by Émile Bernard that Cézanne's optics were "not in the eye, but in his brain". In 1911 he coined the less well-known term Tubism in describing the style of Fernand Léger. In 1906 Louis Vauxcelles was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1925 he was promoted to Officer…
Fernand Léger, The Railway Crossing, 1919, oil on canvas, 53.8 x 64.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, an example of Tubism