Henri Matisse

Bernard Noël

Bernard Noel

Discusses Matisse's career and style, and shows examples of his paintings, paper cutouts, sculpture, and etchings

Matisse

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

Oof. There's maybe 20% fact in this short book, the rest is woolly crap like this: "It is as if, in 1925, painting, the assassination of which Miro had not yet called for, skipped through his fingers and vanished into thin air. He saw it as something foreign to himself, the way a murderer sees his corpse. How did the crime happen? Some unexpected blast of energy derailed the machine; an inner hand knocked down the ladder to the sky. Stunned senseless by something that has no name, Miro did not try to reconstruct a record of what had happened. The 'dream paintings' were Miro's tabula rasa. 'I do not think, therefore I paint' was his cogito. And yet, he was thinking..."

Good selection of images, though!

Matisse

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