Matisse PicassoAnnotation. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. In spite of their initial rivalry, the two masters eventually acknowledged one another as equals, becoming, in their old age, increasingly important to one another both artistically and personally. From the time of their initial encounters in 1906 in Gertrude and Leo Stein's Paris studio until 1917, they individually produced some of the greatest art of the 20th century and maintained an openly competitive relationship brimming with intense innovation. Matisse Picasso presents the artists' oeuvres in groupings that reveal the affinities but also the extreme contrasts of their artistic visions. Published to accompany the landmark exhibition (a joint effort of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Reunion des musees nationaux/Musee Picasso, and the Musee national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), Matisse Picasso is the first major examination of the fascinating relationships between their art, their careers, and their lives. Thirty-four essays, each by a member of the exhibition's curatorial team, focus on a particular moment in the artists' evolving relationship. These texts are accompanied by an introductory history, commentary on the public perception of important artistic relationships, and an extensive chronology. |
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... Matissean.2 In 1931 , ' Matissean ' popularly meant colour and bright light , pattern , plump pink flesh , and a hedonistic , often erotic ambience that deliberately confused Nice with the proche - Orient . For Picasso , it also ...
... Matissean.2 In 1931 , ' Matissean ' popularly meant colour and bright light , pattern , plump pink flesh , and a hedonistic , often erotic ambience that deliberately confused Nice with the proche - Orient . For Picasso , it also ...
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... Matissean way . The crude form - and - image matches are useful precisely because they tell us that Picasso was not simply stealing from Matisse . Rather , he was discovering pre - existing contact points between his and Matisse's art ...
... Matissean way . The crude form - and - image matches are useful precisely because they tell us that Picasso was not simply stealing from Matisse . Rather , he was discovering pre - existing contact points between his and Matisse's art ...
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... Matissean , thus opening onto the ' Matissean ' paintings of 1932 , which also , in fact , conflate these three stylistic systems . When , during the 1920s , Picasso used a separated contour - colour system , the colour would usually ...
... Matissean , thus opening onto the ' Matissean ' paintings of 1932 , which also , in fact , conflate these three stylistic systems . When , during the 1920s , Picasso used a separated contour - colour system , the colour would usually ...
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