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When Henri Matisse painted the Pink Blouse in 1924, he was a successfully established artist living in comfort in Nice. Some twenty years earlier, at another Mediterranean seaport, he had to struggle to shape his own distinctive style. It was … Continue reading
MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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MATISSE: Line Dance With Color
Matisse emerged from WWII with a reputation among living painters second only to that of Picasso. The fresh interest in Matisse was stimulated by a late flowering in many phases of his art- drawings, book designs, and oil paintings- which … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Anton Ehrenzweig, Carol Duncan, Clement Greenberg, Cubism, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jackson Pollock, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Steinberg, Louis Aragon, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Riva Castleman, Wassily Kandinsky
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MATISSE: “Abnormal to the Last Degree”
The man who created this exotic and compelling art was not easy to know. In 1913, the New York Times dispatched Clara T. MacChesney to interview “The King of the Fauves” in his home outside Paris. Aware that Matisse’s work … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Elsen, Andre Derain, Catherine Bock-Weiss, Clara T. MacChesney, Donald Kuspit, Fauvism, Fernande Olivier, Gertrude Stein, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Stein, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman
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MATISSE: KEEP SQUEEZING THE TUBE
One summer, early in the twentieth century, Henri Matisse, on the advice of Picasso, took his family to the seashore at Collioure in the south of France. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came … Continue reading
MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Cezanne, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac
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ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind
One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested that Henri Matisse and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Corot, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Juan Gris, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh
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BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER
The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Anna Hammond, Carter B. Horseley, Cornelia Lauf, Daniel Richter, Dita Amory, Dr. Francis V. O'Connor, Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Fauvism, Francis Bacon, Glenn D. Lowry, Graham Nickson, Greg Lindquist, Henri Matisse, Henry James, jack Flam, John Elderfield, Karen Wilkin, Maurice Denis, Nicholas Serota, Paul Cezanne, Peter Doig, Pierre Bonnard, Rembrandt, Ron Milewicz, Rothko, Ryan McGinness, Sarah Whitfield, Svetlana Alpers, Tony Thomas, Van Gogh
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