That was the secret of the success of the Cubist pictures. They attracted throngs because they were strange, but the throngs would never have gazed as they did unless behind the outward strangeness there had not been an inward seriousness of purpose.
“Those fellows are trying to do something,” was an expression often heard.
The papers would say, “They are simply making fun of the public,” but the public, generally speaking, did not feel that way.
A goodly section of the public made fun of the pictures, but very few people honestly felt the pictures made fun of the public—if anything they were rather too serious.
To return to the proposition that a Cubist picture—being so largely esoragoto—must be well painted.
JAWLENSKY
Head of a Girl