The Cubies' ABC

The Cubies' ABC

Title: The Cubies' ABC Author: Mary Chase Mills Lyall Release Date: November 21, 2012 [EBook #41423] Language: English Credits: Produced by Jana Srna, Ethan W. Kent, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A is for Art in the Cubies domain (Not the Art of the Ancients, brand-new are the Cubies.) Archipenkos their guide, Anatomics their bane; Theyre the joy of the mad, the despair of the sane, (With their emerald hair and their eyes red as rubies.) A is for Art in the Cubies domain. B is for Beauty as Brancusi views it. (The Cubies all vow he and Braque take the Bun.) First you seize all thats plain to the eye, then you lose it; Next you search for the Soul and proceed to abuse it. (They tell me its easy and no end of fun.) B is for Beauty as Brancusi views it. C is for Color Cubistic ad libitum (Orange and blue, yellow, purple and green.) Throw them all on your boards, Cubies say, then exhibit em! Therell be no colors left, if we dont soon prohibit em! (Watch them at work and youll see what I mean.) C is for Color Cubistic ad libitum. D is for Duchamp, the Deep-Dyed Deceiver, Who, drawing accordeons, labels them stairs, With a lady that must have been done in a fever, His model wont see her, we trust, it would grieve her! (Should the stairway collapse, Cubies good at repairs.) D is for Duchamp, the Deep-Dyed Deceiver. Es for the Ego, intense and Exotic, Enjoyed by a Cubie, and quaintly Expressed In a lachrymose face with a gaze idiotic When seen on the canvas.Its really Quixotic To offer ones soul to the Cubical test! Es for the Ego, intense and Exotic. Fs for the Future for which Cubies hanker; To Hals, Perugino and all that old crew They give up the Past without envy or rancor, While saying in tones than which naught could be franker: Come, move on,its our turn! They have finished with you. Fs for the Future for which Cubies hanker. G is for Gertrude Steins limpid lucidity, (Eloquent scribe of the Futurist soul.) Cubies devour each word with avidity: Alone words lack sense, they affirm with placidity, But how wise well be when weve swallowed the whole! G is for Gertrude Steins limpid lucidity. H is for Henris young Red Top, the shaver Whom Cubies regard with aversion and spite. His life-like appearance has won their disfavor: He might walk right out of the picture! they quaver, Why, only to think of it fills us with fright! H is for Henris young Red Top the shaver. Is for the Cubies Immense Intuition, The only real need of an artist, they say: Without it we all would go straight to perdition! Between you and me, Ive a sneaking suspicion The Cubies themselves appear well on the way! Is for the Cubies Immense Intuition. Js for the Jam in the Cubies headquarters, And the Jar that they gave us, the first time we met; And that same Jar of Jam from across the blue waters Is quite unexcelled among those the importers Have wafted us over the ocean as yet. Js for the Jam in the Cubies headquarters. Ks for Kandinskys Kute improvisations The Kubies abound in delight for his art: They say theres a Klue to his Kryptic Kreations. By means of Picabias deep ratiocinations Some day we may really decipher his heart. Ks for Kandinskys Kute improvisations. L is for Life that is still, as they name it, Or nature thats dead, as you readily see. When you think how its treated, you really cant blame it. Youd wish, in its place, you were dead. Just the same it Is shocking how cruel the Cubies can be! L is for Life that is still, as they name it. Ms for Matisses Mamselle Marguerite, (With whom all the Cubies are madly in love;) Her manner is so prepossessing and sweet That, if she but had them, wed fall at her feet! (In her eyes, what a mingling of serpent and dove!) Ms for Matisses Mamselle Marguerite. Ns for the Nudes that the Cubies portray, We willingly vouch for their perfect propriety, Even while some we regard with dismay, For instance, the lady as long as Broadway: With all due respect, we dont crave her society! Ns for the Nudes that the Cubies portray. Os for Objective and Optical Art, (The kind weve been used to, these long years gone by,) Which the Cubie Objects to with all of his heart: Make the Object Subjective, he says, at the start, Just a matter of Grammar, as easy as pie! Os for Objective and Optical Art. Ps for Picasso, Picabia and Party (Who deal in abstractions, distractions and such.) When, with vision chaotic and expletives hearty, You beg of a Cubie their sense to impart, he Profoundly makes answer: In little is much. Ps for Picasso, Picabia and Party. Qs for the Queerness we Stand-patters feel When Progressive young Cubies start Art reformation. Theyre strong on Initiative, praise the Square Deal: Though the Cubic is best! they aggressively squeal; Painting things as you see them is rank deformation! Qs for the Queerness we Stand-patters feel. R is for Reason and poor old Reality, Once in the fashion, but now obsolete, Banished forever with grim actuality. Now the sole law is ones own personality Find its Cube Root and you have it complete. R is for Reason and poor old Reality. S is for Schambergs fair dame at her phone, Conversing with G. Stein, the Futurist scribe. The Cubies, eavesdropping, hear Gertrude bemoan: This one feeling many far seeming alone, The bluer the bliss the redder the bribe! S is for Schambergs fair dame at her phone. Ts for the Type of Tree Chabauds erected. The Cubies insist its as useful as fair For a game that they play when theyre feeling dejected, (A use which not every one would have detected,) Lassoing the branches with rings of their hair. Ts for the Type of Tree Chabauds erected. Us for the Union so Utterly Useless Uniting the members that make up the whole. Against it the Cubies wage war that is truceless: Such rage for convention, they cry, is excuseless! Away with cohesion, and set free the Soul! Us for the Union so Utterly Useless. V is for Villons musicianly lady (With charm evanescent and Visage remote.) The picnics he gives in his orchards so shady Account for his hit with the Cubes. Im afraid he Will spoil them completely for plain table dhte. V is for Villons musicianly lady. Ws for Woolworth, the building so stable, (Erected with nickels and dimes by us all,) Which Cubies paint writhing from cellar to gable, Distinctly resembling the Tower of Babel, Some decades ago, just preceding its fall. Ws for Woolworth, the building so stable. X is the Xit, Xtremely alluring When Cubies invite us to study their Art; And the Xquisite pain we are sadly enduring The while they protest, with an air reassuring: Of course this is merely a diffident start! X is the Xit, Xtremely alluring. Ys for the Yawn overcoming each Cubie At sight of a painting not done in his style: If a man doesnt use all the colors, from ruby To sapphire and emerald and topazthe booby! To look at his canvas is not worth ones while! Ys for the Yawn overcoming each Cubie. Z is for Zaks summer-time composition; The Cubies regard his plump hills with delight. They are somewhat fatigued after this exhibition And tempted to slumber; so, with your permission, Well tuck them in snugly and bid them goodnight. Z is for Zaks summer-time composition. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41423
Author: Lyall, Mary Chase Mills
Release Date: Nov 21, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Lyall, Earl Harvey, 1877-1932