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negotiating away the apocalyse: rain check
Can you negotiate anything? Even the end of the world? Well, it might take a bit of hubris, and the grand finale, the curtain closer with encore is knocking on our door, the grim reaper of grim reapers, on May … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged 10cc, benjamin warsinske, brent townshend, David S. Reynolds, david straker, harold camping, herb cohen, Hilary Spurling, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Randy Newman, samuel colman, sharlotte hydorn, Slavoj Zizek, Stockhausen, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Osborne, zig ziglar, ziggy ziglar
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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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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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MATISSE: War Years and the Morals of Color
Certainly, the war years seems to bring out some ambiguous behavior on the part of French artists in occupied France. On the one hand, it greatly reduced the competition from foreign sources and citizens not of the “vieux souche” , … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Charles Camoin, E. Teriade, Georges Duthuit, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, Jean Laude, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Louis Aragon, Louis Vauxcelles, Marshall Petain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Teriade, Teriade Verve Magazine
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MATISSE:Supreme Indifference to Context
During the war years, Matisse lived first in his apartment in Nice and later in a rented villa in the ancient hilltown of Vence, recovering slowly from the abdominal operation of March, 1941, that left him a semi-invalid for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Amelie Matisse, Charles Camoin, Hilary Spurling, Jean Laude, Laura McPhee, Lydia Delectorskaya, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Michelle Leight, Pete Hamill, Riva Castleman, Rouveyre, Sacha Guitry
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CONFUSION SAYS: Matisse and the Passion of Constant Motion
His whole career, said Matisse, could be thought of as a progress toward clarity and simplification: “A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements. ” Actually, his career had many meanings, as any great artist’s must, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Riva Castleman, Stephane Mallarme
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PICASSO : Distortion and Ruthless attack on GOOD TASTE
Was it just new forms for old feelings? Are new feelings even possible? And were not these forms somehow recycled and repackaged from pre-Christian era civilizations? In any event, the innovations of modern art cannot be explained adequately on formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Green, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jacques Emile Blanche, John Canaday, John Golding, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Steinberg, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Leighton, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Robert Luongo, Roger Fry, Tamar Garb, Van Gogh
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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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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andre Derain, Christopher Cook, Edmond Variel, Fauves, Friesz, Georges Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Canaday, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Sergei Shchukin, Ted Nash
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