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spy vs. spy: wilde for dreyfus
Remembering Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political scene ever since… … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Herbin, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. Jean Sandherr, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Maurice Paleologue, Maurice Weil, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Richard Dreyfuss, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Yolande Jansen
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in the pink
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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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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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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PICASSO HO HUM:The Banality of Evil?
The story of Picasso’s Guernica is in itself a study of myth and of enduring magic….Even Picasso could not a foreseen the impact of Guernica and his own struggles living in occupied France. The political situation forced Picasso into isolation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Ernst Junger, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Jean Bazaire, Jean Du Buffon, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Julien Hervier, Leo Steinberg, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Paul Fluard, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Robert Luongo
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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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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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