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Marquez said the painting was inspired by master cubists like Pablo Picasso and his masterpiece “Guernica,” which depicted a town in rubble after it was bombed during the Spanish Civil War.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

When he holds forth on how his generation murdered the cubists, he is just describing the natural course of progenitors and their offspring.

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

His favourite targets were the modernists, the cubists Gleizes and Braque, Ben Nicholson, Nicolas de Stael, Giacometti and a dozen others.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

But there were protests from the other cubists, who had formed a little cult around Picasso and Braque, and in the end Duchamp’s own brothers, artists both, forced him to take it down.

From Washington Post

There are cubists and futurists and post-impressionists who are as silly as human beings can be, because they hope to attain to artistic salvation by rushing to extremes.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney