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MATISSE:CUTOUTS BETWEEN REASON and FEELING

Ever simplifying and ever synthesizing; younger at eighty than at thirty, Matisse sat in his wheel chair, put aside paintbrush for scissors, and filled his sunset years with patterns of pure color. … “Matisse was the most important of the … Continue reading

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PAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY

In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what he called “the eternal conflict between drawing … Continue reading

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